[MoF] Daily Tax Income and MPP costs
NBB-BNB
eBelgium Income
ThomasRED has published a “mid-term review”, which many of you have already read. In that, he state that “the main issue our country faced about MPP is the cost of these pacts”. To illustrate the costs compared to our income, I will share some insights about our income in this Ministry of Finance article.
I've been looking into what eBelgium earns per day. From Friday to Monday (4 days), we gained 985.73 BEF. We didn’t gain any GOLD and foreign currencies were not taken into account, but they are probably neglectable. That means we earn 246.43 BEF per days, which equals 4.86 GOLD.
So let’s put that in perspective towards the MPPs. If we sign an MPP and pay all 200 GOLD (which is not uncommon for a small country), the MPP would last for 30 days, but costs us 42 days of income. Even the new deal with USA (120 GOLD) would cost us nearly a month's income.
Donate to NBB-BNB
So indeed, relying only on taxes to pay for MPPs can give us some difficulties. Therefore, we have to work together as a community to be strong. Previously, MaryamQ initiated a huge donation round to collect money for MPPs. ThomasRED has carried this on. Thanks to the generous donations of many citizens, we have been able to sign the previous MPPs and fight in various battles. I would like to emphasize once more the importance of your contributions. As you have read, the country collects hardly enough taxes to pay for MPPs, and therefore, your contribution is of vital importance to make eBelgium stronger.
Are you a re-elected or newly elected congress member? Congratulations! I hope your mandate will be helpful for your country. I sincerely hope that the first way that you will help your country, is to follow the example of Jacob van Artevelde, Stonix, Ernest Bogdansson and Sammy Tanghe: they donated the gold they received with their treasure map for being elected. You can donate to NBB-BNB.
Expenses
As I am writing now anyway, I would like to include a short summary of the expenses made lately.
First of all, 36 GOLD was donated to the state accounts. Together with the 14 GOLD we already had in there, we will print 10,000 BEF to ensure we can keep the BEF rate stable. In time, BEF disappears because – for example – people quit the game, and therefore we have to print some extra BEF from time to time.
Another expense was made on our new MPP with USA. A MPP costs 200 GOLD in total. We paid 120 GOLD and USA paid 80 GOLD, which is a generous gesture of them towards a small country like ours. Let’s hope this brings us some good battles again so we can evolve even further!
Economics Knowledge
“ Knowledge is the food of the soul.” – Plato
Do you have a question about economics? You can send me a PM with any question you have, whether it be economics in general, economics in eBelgium or on our policies. If the answer is interesting for all of eBelgium, I might even publish an article about it to explain.
Besides, there are many articles that contain useful information, of which some are stored in our library on http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Belgian_library. Have you written a good article, or have you seen an article that should be added? Make sure to contact Victoria Diets. Only together, we can make the library a real center of knowledge.
That’s it for today. Don’t hesitate to send a message if you have any questions!
Regards,
Boklevski
eBelgian Minister of Finances
Comments
With thanks to Ernest for the tips on how to correctly insert links ; )
- Boklevski
Thanks for this nice article...
It's important to know how many do we earn, and how many we have to expense...
And thanks again for all the ones who have already donated some gold in the past to our national bank, or to those who will donate some in the future !
just let you know that jacob, stonix, ernest and me were just the first ones to be online quickly enough to already transfer the CM medal to NBB - congressmen have only got it for one houre and a halve. I'm confident in it that soon enough nearly all congressmen have done their task of donating their gold.
Nice report, Boklevski. Thanking for helping to keep our citizens informed. And, 4.93 gold donated from congressional treasure.
interesting report 🙂
nice report it really informs and thats very important for players to know for when they once get in government themselves.
Good info! Now you know where the money comes from and where it goes to (;
Regarding the income, there should also be added the donations that come. Even so it seems to me that we are on a thin line.
So let's consider the MPP with eUSA as an investment in new, active citizens. I am curious if by the end of this month we'll see this number grow.
Regarding the emission of coin, it would be of help to have a working sum to use it when needed. NBB must have the means to stabilize the market.
Another good point would be the investment to reactivate the raw state-run companies (grain and iron I believe). Those licences in eBe must be used and they should also work on stabilizing the respective markets when needed. For now they are just 2 companies that keep their initial investments blocked...
L'Erepublique de Belgique n'était pas censé combattre contre ses sauveurs (écrasement du Groupe par le Royaume-Uni)...
Pourtant, des soldats portants des passeports belges ont été aperçu à Londres.
La politique d'expédient du microcosme belge peut elle d'une quelconque façon faire grandir l'eBelgique? Est ce que ce misérabilisme est la quintessence de ce que la politique ebelge peut apporter à l'emonde?
Pauvre eBelgique.
L'eBelgique préfère enfoncer leurs sauveurs (Woldy avait envahi la flandre et bxl pour vous sauver du groupe). Phx (Hongrie, France, Uk, Allemagne) vous avait aidé à sécuriser votre congrès contre Rod damon et ses sbires.
Mais un MPP signé par Thomasred avec les usa est un véritable pied de nez. Ce même Thomasred a préféré payer 120 gold un mpp avec les USA alors qu'une offre beaucoup intéressante a été faite de l'UK.
Pauvre eBelgique
Come on, guys, act fairly - we had an MPP with eRussia and eSerbia last month, and your idol Rod Damon didn't show up all of a sudden to remember us what he and his country have done to help us. We haven't seen you complaining either. Now we've signed an MPP with eUS, which will definitly provide us daily battles (we don't want anything more) and all of a sudden you guys show up (and Apotygma on our national forum) to complain about how ungrateful we supposedly are. We're balancing things out, trying to live our life in eBelgium, and if you guys don't even respect that, how can you expect us to errect statues and memorials for you?
Evidement c'est l'eUK qui est pauvre (;
L'Erepublique de Belgique n'était pas censé combattre contre [...]le Royaume-Uni) (selon les promoteurs du MPP)
L'inverse s'est produit (ce qui était évident).
Fairplay??? C'est quoi encore qu'on reconnait au fait que ca ose tout?
Pauvre Belgique
ps : en ma présence, ce serait sympa d'arrêter de faire passer les actions du comité stratégique US comme des cadeaux au peuple belge. Surtout quand on sait que... j'étais au première loge. [rien qu'imaginer que le Comité Stratégique US puisse aider qui que ce soit est tordant. Ils n'aident qu'eux, c'est inscrit dans les gènes de cette institution]
L'eBelgique s'est retournée contre ceux qui les ont aidé à sécuriser leur nation.
Signer un MPP avec Rod Damon et ses sbires, c'est balancer une baffe dans la figure de toute personne qui a aidé l'eBelgique contre Rod Damon.
Le congrès belge n'est presque exclusivement composé de supporters de la victoire, c'est pour cela qu'ils diraient AMEN devant tout ce qu'Eden/brolliance dirait.
Le jour où vous aurez besoin d'aide : ils ne vous aideront pas, il y a une multitude d'exemples là dessus.
En signant un MPP avec les ricains, vous avez réussi une chose : faire perdre toute crédibilité à l'eBelgique.
Your blind aversion against everything eAmericain/EDEN/Brolliance always makes me smile, and your comments always show no insight in what is actually going on in eBelgium, what our people actually think and what they want. You like to complain about how bad things are in eBelgium and how you pretend to care, but the thing is, every time again you show that your priority is eUK and that you only really care about its interests. You're outrageously biased and keep living in the past, ignoring everything what's going on in our community. I wonder why you still bother to pop up every time "pauvre eBelgique" does something you or eUK doesn't like. We don't care how you lead your life over there and don't intervene in your affairs, why don't you let us live our lifes the way we like it then?
They can say wathever they want they flee our country and lost the right to tell us what to do. They lacked any diomatic skill Apotygma showed up on our forum and threatened us of annihilation if we ever make mpp whit a EDEN/Brolliance country.
@Xgentis – To be fair, Apotygma didn't object to all EDEN/Bro countries - just those that were a direct threat to the eUK (just as a few months ago I objected to Russia but was fine with other Phoenix countries). And to be honest, I think his concern is perfectly understandable considering his history with the UK. He of all people knows how spiteful and arrogant and belligerent some of their leaders can be.
I guess I'm just not sure why some of you are so consistently hostile to expatriates voicing their opinion on the issue of MPPs. A lot of us comment occasionally on all sorts of topics that spark our interest. But as long as we all recognize that there is a bias in our perspectives (which Apotygma clearly did state in his forum post), I don’t see what the problem is. Belgians can decide for themselves what a legitimate argument is and take it or leave it. But saying people (especially people who have a long history with this community) are not welcome to comment on an issue that is important to them is a little disheartening to me.
It's pretty simple, if we had taken an MPP with UK or France we would be in great danger with Poland right next to us (when we signed the MPP with US Poland was our neighbour)
Also we already had 2 MPPs with Phoenix, so now it was Eden/Brolliance turn, we are neutral, we try to balance things
Like I said signing an MPP with France or UK would have given us the "This is a Phoenix-country"-sign
MDR
La prochaine fois, pensez à ne pas choisir un MPP avec une nation qui cherche à envahir un voisin proche. Allez savoir pourquoi (le bon sens? La géostratégie élémentaire), le voisin n'apprécie pas trop et prend ca comme un couteau planté dans son dos...
Slivever,ils préfèrent perdre toute crédibilité envers leurs voisins en signant des MPP à droite et à gauche. c'est leur droit.
C'est évidemment un manque flagrant de stratégie surtout que les belges n'ont pas hésité à aider les ricains à Londres.
S'ils se prennent des embargos, ils feront la vierge effarouchée.
De plus, croire que la Pologne en a après leur medium grain, faut vraiment avoir un problème.
Choix hasardeux + manque de vision globale = aucune crédibilité
Peut-etre qu'un jour, ils le regretteront
Bha, je ne suis pas vous (et dans ce cas, j'interviendrais en faveur des belges), mais si j'étais vous... la moindre opportunité, j'efface.
On n'accepte pas une menace dans son périmètre sans broncher.
Sur ce, je suis toujours prêt à aider pour défendre Londres (j'espère pouvoir me financer moi-même d'ici un mois).