"Winter patch will be great. We listen to player community..." - which moron wished ridiculous pricing on Custom Office?

Plus, t2/p2 products - I think the transfer on some cost more than the actual outcome.

The taxes are 10% of 9,000 isk for P2 items (900 isk for the mathematically challenged such as the OP).

The cheapest P2 in Jita right now is 4,500 isk, while most are in the 9,000-12,000 isk range. How is that under 900 isk?

The taxes are 10% of 9,000 isk for P2 items (900 isk for the mathematically challenged such as the OP).

The maths... (using test cultures as it has the highest profit margin if you are buying P1 to make test cultures, all maths are using Jita buy prices, import taxes are 1/2 the export tax)

To make 5 units of test cultures you must use 40 units of Bacteria and 40 units of Water.
40 units of Bacteria x 163.10 isk p/u = 6,524 isk.
40 units of Water x 412 isk p/u = 16,480 isk.
Which puts the material cost at 23,004 isk for 5 test cultures (4,600.8 isk p/u).
The export tax of test cultures is now at 900 isk p/u (4,500 isk for 5).
The import tax for Bacteria/Water is 25 isk p/u (2,000 isk for 80).
Total tax (import+export) is 6,500 isk.
Total cost (total tax + material cost) is 29,504 isk for 5 test cultures (5,900.8 isk p/u).
Test Cultures are 7,301 isk p/u.
Total profit p/u (test cultures p/u - total cost p/u) is 1,400.2 isk.

Old import tax for Bacteria/Water is .38 isk p/u (30.4 isk for 80).
Old export tax for Test Cultures is 9 isk p/u (45 isk for 5).
Old total tax is 75.4 isk (15.08 isk p/u).
Old total cost is 4,615.88 isk p/u.
Old total profit p/u is 2,685.12.

Net change due to tax increases is a loss of 1,284.92 isk p/u.
That is a removal of 52.14% of the profit.
The other P2 products are going to be much worse.

The tax on all the other P2's would be the same if you keep the same setup of import P1's to build the P2. The tax being 1300 isk per unit. It jumps to 1500 isk per unit if you import the P0's to build the P2. But if you're extracting the P0's and building the P2, then the tax is only 900 isk per unit. However, this says nothing of the cost to buy those initial products.

The maths... (using test cultures as it has the highest profit margin if you are buying P1 to make test cultures, all maths are using Jita buy prices, import taxes are 1/2 the export tax)

To make 5 units of test cultures you must use 40 units of Bacteria and 40 units of Water.
40 units of Bacteria x 163.10 isk p/u = 6,524 isk.
40 units of Water x 412 isk p/u = 16,480 isk.
Which puts the material cost at 23,004 isk for 5 test cultures (4,600.8 isk p/u).
The export tax of test cultures is now at 900 isk p/u (4,500 isk for 5).
The import tax for Bacteria/Water is 25 isk p/u (2,000 isk for 80).
Total tax (import+export) is 6,500 isk.
Total cost (total tax + material cost) is 29,504 isk for 5 test cultures (5,900.8 isk p/u).
Test Cultures are 7,301 isk p/u.
Total profit p/u (test cultures p/u - total cost p/u) is 1,400.2 isk.

Old import tax for Bacteria/Water is .38 isk p/u (30.4 isk for 80).
Old export tax for Test Cultures is 9 isk p/u (45 isk for 5).
Old total tax is 75.4 isk (15.08 isk p/u).
Old total cost is 4,615.88 isk p/u.
Old total profit p/u is 2,685.12.

Net change due to tax increases is a loss of 1,284.92 isk p/u.
That is a removal of 52.14% of the profit.
The other P2 products are going to be much worse.

Two things:

1) Prices will adjust upward for items that are currently unprofitable. If an item is currently a losing proposition, I suggest you consider investing in it, as it is pretty much guaranteed to rise in price as manufacturers stop bringing unprofitable wares to market, interfering with the supply.

2) This change gives extraction planets a benefit over factory planets. By extracting P0s and going as far in the chain as possible, you avoid import/export fees (or even importing P1s and producing up to P3s/P4s). Your tax burden is much lower if you extract your bacteria and water on the same planet you build the test cultures on. This brings the profit potential of extraction planets more in line than pure factory planets, which is a good thing.

They have to make you WANT to put up a POCO up, now don't they ?
If your taxes are, say, 4m ISK/day/colony, and you have, say, 3 alts working the same planet... a POCO could pay for itself and then some if it manages to survive about 2 weeks or thereabouts.
So... put one up :P

P.S. Also, one extra incentive to get out of highsec. At least as far as PI is concerned.

You should prob do some maths for yourself cause both of your points are dead wrong. Half of the P2 and P3 products have been unprofitable (ie you actually lose isk if you make them) at least for the past 2 months i've been watching them. On top of it if you have both factories (making anything higher than P1) and extractors on a planet then you are actually losing alot of production capability due to extractors requiring so much pg.

The changes in PI I think will make null sec PI more interesting but screw over low and high sec PI. Doing PI in low or high sec is already more of a hobby rather then a serious isk making enterprise. It will benefit large corps in low sec as they will have the power to deploy and defend POCO's but for everyone else it makes it not worth doing . It makes high sec PI even more worthless then it is already

This is just another lesson that CCP refuses to learn. Most players don't want to live on the edge. The majority of the community prefer a safe enviroment where they don't have to pvp

The problem with the taxes were they were out-dated. They were using 2 year old price indicies so you werent being charged anywhere close to what you should have being charged. They fixed it, so now you actually have to pay a little for your otherwise free-passive isk.

Just gonna repeat what I said in the other thread

No, the problem is the "minerals I mined are free" idiots.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AploM5dd7fuEdGNvSXRsUFlYekExMHdCbjRqczZOcEE&authkey=CK78g4kO&hl=en_GB&pli=1#gid=49

In my spreadsheet linked above you can see that most goods do sell at or above the new tariff values. Stop trying to sell the ones which are priced terribly. Serious, if the goods which you are selling are worth much less than the equivalent '100% tariff" then you are in the wrong market mate. I'd go so far as to say you'd make more isk selling the P1 items thant he P2 items and are in fact losing isk each time you combine them into a P2 item.

one wetware mainframe is going to cost 8 million now, to turn the same profit?

No, should go up a maximum of 780k as a result of taxes. With a more efficient setup, more like 380k.

Whether it goes up further because of a) speculation or b) increased demand/reduced supply, is another question.

It really depends on how you're making the wetware mainframe. How are you making it? If I start with all the P2's for the mainframe, the total tax per unit (at 10%) would be 216000 isk. With the old tax rates, this same setup would've cost 50810 isk per unit. So that's a jump of 425.11% for this particular setup at a 10% tax rate.