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PI Taxes wacked ?
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Reaper gI
Me Wanna Machariel
#21 - 2012-07-17 01:39:52 UTC
Styth spiting wrote:
Changes to the tax rate will dramatically change (lower) the prices of current PI mats. If say for example P3 was lowered to a real 10% duty tax of 4,400 for exports you can bet the prices for robotics would drop to match the difference in duty tax within a few days, which then would go on and effect all other manufacturing (ice for example).

Overall you wont make any more money in PI. Infact you'll make less IMO as more people get involved since its "more profitable" when in reality the money you'll be making will be equal or less. The only advantage will be to people who buy goods that use PI mats since these items sell prices will decrease to match the lower manufacturing costs. Sure you'll pay less for the initial mats, but you'll also make less selling the mats or finished goods.

The only way profits will go up for selling mats / manufactured items is if the demand for them goes up, the tax rate won't make any difference after a 2 week period.


Current sells are based on zero tax production (or are all at a major loss). So prices wouldn't drop much.
All it will do is make highsec manufacture viable at a lower margin, about 20% (currently needs to be 100%+ in some cases).

You still keep the advantages of your own customs office, but highsec players can do something other than just gather P1 or speculate without the market having to have gone totally to hell first.
Dirk Culliford
Zero G Universal Enterprises
#22 - 2012-07-17 20:49:03 UTC
No no no no no

The PI duty is not too high for current product prices, the prices are too low for the current duty!

Price is not fixed, the duties/taxes are. If your product is not profitable you solve this by increasing your price or finding a different product. It's not CCP's fault that hundreds of players cannot/will not do the maths and understand that they aren't actually making isk!

Also, if high sec isn't profitable you could always go somewhere else!?
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