- Taxes can have a positive, negative, or neutral effect on Happiness
- Each wealth level responds slightly differently to tax rates in terms of Happiness
- In order to have a Positive effect on Happiness taxes must be LW 7%, MW 6%, HW 5% or Lower
- In order to have a Negative effect on Happiness taxes must be LW 13%, MW 12%, HW 11% or Higher
- Taxes between LW 8-12%, MW 7-11%, and HW 6%-10% has no effect on Happiness.
- Therefore setting taxes to 12%, 11%, and 10% will not make Sims Happy or Sad, but will generate the most revenue with the least impact.
- To prevent a certain wealth level from moving in simply set taxes to 20%
Impact on Happiness
| Tax Rate | Wealth | ||
| Low | Medium | High | |
| 0% | +3 | +3 | +3 |
| 1% | +3 | +2 | +2 |
| 2% | +2 | +2 | +2 |
| 3% | +2 | +2 | +1 |
| 4% | +2 | +1 | +1 |
| 5% | +1 | +1 | +1 |
| 6% | +1 | +1 | 0 |
| 7% | +1 | 0 | 0 |
| 8% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 10% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11% | 0 | 0 | -1 |
| 12% | 0 | -1 | -1 |
| 13% | -1 | -1 | -1 |
| 14% | -1 | -1 | -2 |
| 15% | -1 | -2 | -2 |
| 16% | -2 | -2 | -2 |
| 17% | -2 | -2 | -3 |
| 18% | -2 | -3 | -3 |
| 19% | -3 | -3 | -3 |
| 20% | -3 | -3 | -4 |
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| The Ideal SimCity Tax Rates |
Is this the same for Residential, Commercial and Industrial?
ReplyDeleteyes it is the same.
DeleteBut in this case, the order is residential 12%, commercial 11% and industrial 10%?
DeleteIt's 12% Low Wealth (R,C, and I), 11% Medium Wealth (R, C, and I), 10% High Wealth (R, C, and I)
Deleteit shows in the picture 12% low wealth R,C and I 11% medium wealth R and 12% medium wealth I high wealth 10%R,C and I
DeleteGood catch. That 12% in the middle of the bottom row should have been 11% as well.
DeleteThanks *so* much man!
ReplyDeleteThis website has answered so many questions and is by far the most useful resource iv'e been able to find on Sim City. Well done and props. THanks for making this website.
ReplyDeletegood
ReplyDeleteTax for HW is 0% but still say tax is too high, any one know why?
ReplyDeleteNo man how its rate is so high i didn't understand that how this happened.
ReplyDeleteIts 2020 and I still find this site useful haha
ReplyDeleteMe too... :-)
DeleteI never missed up with Tax, but I think that it is a part of the game so I will get benifit from it by using this strategy (12-11-10)
I am very late to this topic, but isn't it weird to tax the lower class more? I had assumed the opposite lol
ReplyDeleteYeah its quite weird but think of it like this the lower employed dont have a choice the richer could just move out
DeleteWe live in a society 😥
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