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How much can you make off a POCO?
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Morikar
#1 - 2012-04-12 22:20:37 UTC  |  Edited by: Morikar
Suppose you get a POCO in position on a decent planet it's being used a fair amount by other players.

What is a fair estimate of taxes that you would collect from other players using it throughout the month?

Does the tax apply to both imports and exports? How is it calculated? I know it's a %, but how do you calculate the base value of everything?
Cyrus Deacon
Darkstar Interstellar Demolitions Conglomerate
#2 - 2012-04-13 06:27:27 UTC  |  Edited by: Cyrus Deacon
we have 2 pocos that have 21 command centres on them each, about 2m a day each in taxes. some days more

tax applys to in and exports, its **% of the base value of the im/exported item. where ** is the tax % you set.

EDIT: Should note we have a 10% rate
Lesath Scorpii
Cyclone Solutions
#3 - 2012-04-13 11:47:45 UTC  |  Edited by: Lesath Scorpii
I'm sure the base values are known... The top level items are 13.5k/item/%tax.

If you have a good tax rate in a good location, you can make a ton.

4 jumps from Jita there are barren/temperate planets for factory production at 5%, I'm going to be paying >75M/day over four planets there once I get a JF (over several characters); that's because I'm saving 75M/day over the 10% stations near me. It's unwise to set tax rates equal to or greater than 10% most likely, because then there's very limited incentive to use them.
Morikar
#4 - 2012-04-13 15:28:02 UTC
Cyrus Deacon wrote:
we have 2 pocos that have 21 command centres on them each, about 2m a day each in taxes. some days more


OK, so how much does a PoCO cost to build? 100m was it? So you have to have it running for 50 days before it actually becomes a profitable venture for you at your location? That's a heck of a long term investment.


Lesath Scorpii wrote:
I'm sure the base values are known... The top level items are 13.5k/item/%tax.

If you have a good tax rate in a good location, you can make a ton.

4 jumps from Jita there are barren/temperate planets for factory production at 5%, I'm going to be paying >75M/day over four planets there once I get a JF (over several characters); that's because I'm saving 75M/day over the 10% stations near me. It's unwise to set tax rates equal to or greater than 10% most likely, because then there's very limited incentive to use them.


That's something I was wondering. It seems like a good incentive if you have a large corp to wardec anybody that has POCOs near Jita so you can knock out their POCOs and put your own up and just monopolize the Forge region. Is it common for a single big corp to control the POCOs all near a trade hub like Jita? Or are they all owned by different corps?

It's a heck of an investment though, so I was trying to figure out the cost vs gain benefit of doing something like that.