<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=141836.msg6384391#msg6384391">Quote from: Haibane on 03-06-2012, 15:10:31</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">After a discussion with Urbanzorro I want to suggest to you all that slaves are taxed. Just like governments tax everything else we do, like smoke, drink, drive cars, take plane flights, buy almost anything, etc, etc it seems to me that the transacting of slaves between people would and should be taxed as a huge source of income for governments.<br/><br/>I'm going to suggest there's a Domestic Sales Tax of 5% on the value of the transaction each time the slave is bought and sold inside the country? So that slave-owning nations also have a small incentive to keep their slaves at home there can be a heftier 10% International Sales Tax whenever a slave is exported or imported.<br/><br/>As regulating this is a civil function, its the BFA's job and since the BFA is more akin in structure to Interpol where there are linked offices across the world, the co-ordinating of the 10% export and 10% import tax on each international transaction would be easy to administrate.<br/><br/>Investigating tax evasion also comes under the BFA's remit, both domestically and internationally.<br/><br/>To quote Urban who put it better than I could: "The BFA wouldn't be responsible for looking into small things like the occasional runaway but they would rather be geared at investigating professional smugglers, large shipments of slaves, and actual organizations who focused on freeing women. Basically only those things that represent a significant enough loss of money to be worth the cost of the investigation.<br/><br/>The BFA is somewhat similar to the operation of the IRS (the United States's government agency tasked with enforcing the proper assesment and payment of federal taxes), in that they are responsible for overseeing the proper administration and operation of the slave trade. For instance my theory was that most if not all governments with slavery would have taxes for said slaves. Just like property taxes, vehicle taxes, etc. And the avoidance of these taxes would be a good motivator for some members of slave nations to seek to illegally sell/purchase slaves without the government taking it's cut of any money made. <br/><br/>In addition to this I could see them as being responsible for investigating illegal export of slaves as this (if there were taxes on slaves) would in a way represent theft of taxable resources from a nation's economy and in the cases of women being brought to anti-slave countries it would represent a net loss to the "world" economy."<br/><br/>Thoughts everyone?<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Sounds reasonable. In fact it would be an excise duty, not a tax. So that, using the UK as an example, the BFA would be more akin to Customs and Excise than the Inland Revenue (before they were merged).<br/><br/>IMPORTANT POINT: Monaco is a tax haven...<br/><br/>The Government of Monaco does not tax it's citizens.<br/><br/>H, not sure how you want to work that into the game, but it could, in fact, be the reason our characters are all in Monaco in the first place. Linda launders her money through the Monaco banks, for example, and the illegally imported slaves are put up for sale at Monte Carlo slave market, where the BAF has less influence and there is no tax....?