Tax Office

The Tax Office is a workplace building used to collect taxes from citizens. It performs desk work, so there is no time lost to travel while it is operating. In practice, a single Tax Office can usually recover taxes from about 10 citizens per day.

Its throughput is tied to workload: for every 200 work completed, it can levy tax from one A_Ratizen. Because not every citizen is taxed every day, a good rule of thumb is to assign one tax collector for roughly every 20 to 30 citizens.

• The building’s efficiency comes from uninterrupted desk work rather than movement.
• One Tax Office can handle a modest population, but larger colonies will need more than one to keep tax collection from falling behind.
• Since taxation is not applied to every citizen each day, staffing can be planned in groups instead of on a one-to-one basis.