Hi
Sorry I can't be of more help, but I just wanted to clarify that Particracy's economic system is very rudimentary; it was never finished. For that matter, some nations' economies/budgets are completely broken (Vorona, Lourenne, Talmoria).
Carter Aaron Scott wrote:building Aldegār into a thriving economic powerhouse.
That's done via RP, much more so than via the in-game budgets. Please post news articles on the forum with descriptions, commentary, etc., about economic manoeuvres that you're making; your nation's newspaper is a good place.
viewtopic.php?t=1852It doesn't really matter which economic school you're following -- choose whichever one that you prefer -- what's important is that you write RP forum posts about it, the more (and the more detail and the more often), the better.
Carter Aaron Scott wrote:And if you want, just look at Aldegār's budget and stuff and yeeaaahhhh. I need help ;-;
Happy to be of help
As for my budget/tax opinions ... please be aware, the following are only my personal opinions, nothing more....
Looking at Aldegar's current budget at this moment, you're running a deficit, of about 5,3% of GDP.
http://classic.particracy.net/budget.php?nationid=24Government spending is quite high, at over 43% of GDP; reducing this somewhat might be a good way to get rid of that deficit, if you would like.
Or of course you could raise taxes, or just ignore the deficit; whichever you would prefer.
Justice ministry funding is a bit on the high side, at 2,8% of GDP; perhaps consider paring this down a little, unless there's an RP reason for it being high. (Again, all throughout this, RP considerations are consistently more important than, and outweigh, any of these mere numbers.)
Food&Agriculture (5,2% of GDP) and Trade&Industry (5,9% of GDP) are the other two even bigger outliers, to my eye. Of course, again, unless there are RP reasons for them being that high.
I would personally suggest about 1% of GDP or thereabouts for each of the above three -- but again please remember that that's only my personal opinion.
Infrastructure is also quite high (7,3% of GDP) ... but on the other hand infrastructure spending is both an investment in the nation's current and future economy, and also creates immediate jobs on the ground.
(... which is merely RP spin-work of mine
; this setting, along with everything else in the budget, has no game-mechanics effect whatsoever, since the game's economic system was never completed.)
As for taxes ... I personally feel that essential-goods sales taxes are an abomination, needlessly and senselessly cruel. Getting rid of this one, please, would surely be appreciated by your nation's citizens, especially the working class who need it the most. (Although doing so would increase the deficit.)
On the income tax, the lowest two tax brackets are unnecessary clutter.
Please note that, as far as the game mechanics are concerned, everyone in your nation who has income, has income of at least 3005 ACR or more.
http://classic.particracy.net/viewregio ... gionid=126So thus, everyone who has income, therefore pays the entirety of the 900-1200 ACR slice (at 3%, that's 9 ACR in tax per taxpayer), as well as the entirety of the 1200-2400 ACR slice (at 15%, that's 180 ACR in tax per taxpayer).
I would suggest getting rid of those two brackets, and lowering the floor of the 2400-3600 ACR 20% bracket, to 1455 ACR.
The thereby newly added portion of that bracket (1455-2400 ACR at 20%), would collect the
exact same 189 ACR each, from the
exact same taxpayers, as the two old brackets did. Doing so would not change in the slightest what
anybody owes in taxes, at all; all that it would do, would be merely to nicely simplify the math for everyone.
Of course, if you want to
change how much income tax different people in your nation owe, then please do so!
It's your nation.
The other two taxes (corporate and luxury), I personally don't see any issues with at this moment.
(Small-government people would feel that they are very much too high. But I am not a small-government person.
)
Again, just my opinions.
Best wishes to your and your nation