Taxes in the game?

Does the game take into account the tax rate of the countries your player is signing for? If not it should! Taxes adds another dimension as it might for example convince a player to go for a Spanish club over England. Also it might make it easier for the club to sign a player as they can offer lower wages because of the lower tax rate.

I am not sure if this is in the game but I think it should be as this is a big issue for players when choosing a team

It's just another unneeded and complicated thing to implement really, simply because you'd need to devise how much weighting to add to the Income Tax factor when a player makes a decision. Because you wouldn't want a player constantly turning down an English club in favour of a Spanish club when similar conditions are factored in like Club rep, League rep and European competition.

Quite. And remember that this will never change, since the game has no ability to cope with changing currency exchange rates or changing taxes. Adding this would essentially just stick a difficulty multiplier onto managing in England while making Spain and Italy have an easier time of it all.

I'd much rather SI looked at a way of making club performance affect league reputation over this.

I'd much rather SI looked at a way of making club performance affect league reputation over this.

Now THAT needs to be looked at

Winning everything before you in France or Belgium for example has little effect in the long-term since your club will hit a ceiling. The ceiling being the League Reputation.

well the game doesn't update currency just look at the pounds compared to the dollar now. Its actually quite easy to take into account the tax issues. For the AI player it wouldn't make a difference. If you are a Spanish club, the wage you offer is that amount minus 25% while in the UK it would be minus 50%. Taxes won't change all that often like currency rates or like club squads. Its not that complicated just a wage minus a percentage unless its a tax rate similar to the one in the US which would be a different rate for each part of your income.

well the game doesn't update currency just look at the pounds compared to the dollar now. Its actually quite easy to take into account the tax issues. For the AI player it wouldn't make a difference. If you are a Spanish club, the wage you offer is that amount minus 25% while in the UK it would be minus 50%. Taxes won't change all that often like currency rates or like club squads. Its not that complicated just a wage minus a percentage unless its a tax rate similar to the one in the US which would be a different rate for each part of your income.

Nobody is questioning the relative ease of implementing Income Tax, it's the effect it has in the game that will be difficult to code.

Why implement something like Income Tax but not do it fully?. Arshavin was reportedly upset that his wage promised by Arsenal wasn't quite what it turned out to be with the 50% English Income Tax laws. Who knows, maybe he wouldn't have signed afterall if he knew half his wage would be nabbed by HMRC ?

And tax rates change quite a lot. For example when Arsh signed he got 60% of his wages. Now it is 50%.

You can't expect SI to be financial soothsayers when the highest-paid financial experts in the world stuffed up so badly!