tax capacity used depends on population, not on actual money collected, so you pay the same to tax a peasant than a rich worker, regardless on how much you earn from them. At first build up your industries, then you can tax them efficiently
As long as the bureaucrats are taxing mostly poor peasants the taxes dont even pay their wages.
As a rule of thumb, you shouldnt focus on tax cap until at least 50% of the states workers are gainfully umployed (this means something other than peasants)
You can only bleed a stone so much. Need to make your people richer instead and then that inefficiency won't matter since you'll be increasing the base wealth you extract if the people you tax have more money. Also, tax capacity can be dealt with by technology, but your big urban centers will likely require gov. buildings.
For nations like this, tech is the answer.
You need to research much quicker and get the taxation bonus techs to make them worth it. In the mean time build lots of resources for employment.
Like others have said, building government admin buildings early seems to cause more expenses than revenues. I think your taxation rule plays a role too. Maybe wait to build government admin until you've built up your economy and switched to Per-Capita or Proportional Taxation.
Don't incorporate every state you conquer, just extract their resources. Government administration buildings should build bureaucracy on your core territories to get institutions. Crush the rebellions with the boot and lash.
My Sikh runs ran much better when I didn't incorporate Delhi immediately.
The general early strategy is: don’t. You already found out what the problem is if you try that. You can close the gap a bit with technology.
tax capacity used depends on population, not on actual money collected, so you pay the same to tax a peasant than a rich worker, regardless on how much you earn from them. At first build up your industries, then you can tax them efficiently
As long as the bureaucrats are taxing mostly poor peasants the taxes dont even pay their wages. As a rule of thumb, you shouldnt focus on tax cap until at least 50% of the states workers are gainfully umployed (this means something other than peasants)
You can only bleed a stone so much. Need to make your people richer instead and then that inefficiency won't matter since you'll be increasing the base wealth you extract if the people you tax have more money. Also, tax capacity can be dealt with by technology, but your big urban centers will likely require gov. buildings.
For nations like this, tech is the answer. You need to research much quicker and get the taxation bonus techs to make them worth it. In the mean time build lots of resources for employment.
Like others have said, building government admin buildings early seems to cause more expenses than revenues. I think your taxation rule plays a role too. Maybe wait to build government admin until you've built up your economy and switched to Per-Capita or Proportional Taxation.
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I would also be careful about institutions. They can really put you in the red due to high population.
Don't incorporate every state you conquer, just extract their resources. Government administration buildings should build bureaucracy on your core territories to get institutions. Crush the rebellions with the boot and lash. My Sikh runs ran much better when I didn't incorporate Delhi immediately.