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If no one puts up a POCO, nothing is stopping YOU from doing it.

(1) NPC corp membership (2) Ever hear the word, "Poverty"?

Current selling price for a Customs Office Gantry is a little over 69 million ISK.

Probably for the tears. Not for the ISK.

Low sec POCO will be superior aside from any tax issues as far as I can gather. The low sec planets produce more material per cycle don't they ?

What will happen with regards to a group logistics repairing NPC POCOs while they're being attacked by a separate group?
Will the attacking group get a limited engagement with the logi group or something like that? Or will the attackers just have to try to out dps the logis?

"Bash The Carebears" CCP's war on casual / social players has reached a new low this week with the announcement that all the fun / profit will be taken out of planetary interaction for small corporations or one man CareBear teams. Now, if you want to compete on price from PI products with large alliances, you will need two have the funds to wardec them. Of course CCP believe that this will force all players in hig- sec to band together in one large blob and takeover the existing universe. A spokesman for CCP said, off the record. "We are trying to to stop people going to their real life jobs and instead play a minimum of 12 hours on the EvE each night. This way we can increase our profits because more people will join the game and make us lots of money, because they think millions of real players are on the server all the time. I asked the spokesman if there would be a chance that we could walk around on customers offices, he said, " WOW that's a fantastic idea why didn't we think about that before? We could even have first person shooters running around blowing them up internally, but we wouldn't want everyone doing that so we would probably put it on a platform that not everyone wants to play on and .. oh.. oh .. we could get money off the console company to fund it !!. Finally I asked him, if he believed that the big alliances will dominate the use of HiSec customs officers by applying extortionate tax rates on them and therefore increase the profits they make from their Low-sec PI operations? He replied "Doh.. of course, why would we want to break a system that works OK, if not to help those poor Low-sec alliances feed their ambitions with increased profits?, I expect they will form an offshoot of the big alliance just for POCO bashing and killing anyone who attempts to take them over, great fun or what ?"

Extract from "The Daily Bash"

I am really struggling to make sense of this from a story-telling perspective, but perhaps someone can point me to a thread or a post with an explanation in terms of the governing fiction of the game. At the moment, I have the following problems.

We are meant to believe that the Amarr Empire, the Caldari State, the Gallente Federation and the Minmatar Republic have all turned their control of planetary tolls over to the same corporation, Interbus. That seems odd, for starters. I can't think of an example in world history where opposed political entities all delegated their tax-collecting to the same third party. But in New Eden there's also Concord, so perhaps one could think of a way to understand this. Perhaps.

But then we are told that capsuleers, in the heart of Empire space, can wander up to any one of these customs offices and destroy it. Without consequences. No Concordokken, no Caldari Navy on the doorstep the next morning, nothing. This is as if a group of armed individuals decided to take over the customs office at the port of Rotterdam, and the Dutch government said, hey, no worries, we're fine with that. (The fact that they later have to announce that they are going to do this ahead of time by means of a wardec makes it no more logical.)

No state, ever, survives the loss of its hold over the tax revenue of its territory. So I can only see two ways this could go. One would be that the factions reassert their control over their customs offices: there needs to be serious opposition on the part of the Navy, or standings requirements, or—I liked this idea from an earlier post quite a lot, not least because it does have strong historical antecedents—a non-violent mechanism for gaining control of a customs office (auctioning, bribery, whatever).

The alternative is that this is intended as the beginning of the end of Empire space. On the heels of the customs offices will follow the mission agents. Eventually the CEOs of the great alliances will house in the ruins of Ishukone headquarters and the palace of the Empress. Curiously enough, I could live with that. But then I think that the customs offices are an absurd place to start, if that's the roadmap.

Let us leave Goonswarm out of the equation for a second.

Why should I be taking down an Interbus CO?
Obvious reason: they charge me 10% tax. I can set that to 0% if I own a POCO. Fine.

But taxing other people? Well.
This NPC-tax-thing is wholly different than in Lowsec/Nullsec. In nullsec and lowsec, Interbus charges 17% tax.
If I blow up a CO and put a POCO there, charge only 10% or even less - that is WIN:WIN.
Hapless industrialists who are too meek to kill or defend a POCO (not that there are that many in 0.0) will flock to my POCO and willingly pay the lower tax.

But in highsec? Interbus charges 10%-skill, my POCO charges 10%-skill+X. Unless I set X=0% tax rate (which makes the whole taxing business somewhat pointless), all industrialists on the planets suddenly have an incentive TO ABANDON THEIR COLONIES and settle elsewhere.
TL;DR:. the NPC portion of the tax may keep lowsec POCOs in the competition, but POCOs can't compete with Interbus and are thus completely pointless except for own PI!

That is ofc unless:
a) ALL Interbus COs have been killed
b) there are some planets that are so much better than others (ressources or position) that people tolerate higher taxes
c) the "zero risk-max profit"-HS people are too lazy to move away

Now there are over 9000 (:-D REALLY) planets in highsec. Each CO takes like 15,000,000 hits before it explodes. No capitals allowed.
If GSF wants to kill all of em, the whole alliance will surely disband, because nearly half of them will be bored to death by doing so.

My guess is that we will continue to see many Interbus COs throughout highsec for a long time (there are plenty in 0.0 and lowsec and it is years since they have been introduced).
But in HS, players will PREFER Interbus offices. So POCOs will be irrelevant outside of a small portion of planets.
For everyone doing PI outside these places - rejoice! Your NPC taxes will be lowered to 40% of the current NPC tax.

P4 goods will drop in value, although this maybe somewhat compensated by goons et al. buying POS guns to fend off siphon units in their former afk-empires.

I think you got the equation wrong, it is going to be Interbus tax + NPC tax (modified by your skill lvl). The Interbus tax is going to be the same as everywhere else.
Means if you blow the thing up youre still going to have the NPC tax but you can remove (or increase for the lols) the Interbus tax part.