Higher sales taxes would just result in less volume moving and increased prices. The reduced volume would make the increased taxes a moot issue.

NPC tax doesn't affect mining & with the new WarDeck system I won't be surprised to see a few miners move into more NPC corps & keep there bounty alts in a 1 man corp
It'll be interesting to see how peeps start avoidingtaxes when it becomes too overbearing. Maybe anincrease in the use of contracts?

Another idea would be for faction ( and maybe officer ) drops to be encrypted BPCs rather than items. These items may de-coded at NPC station for a fee to made useable. [ hmmm this could be extend to all drops in an extreme case ].

Instead of more taxes, maybe more industries.

If productivity can keep pace with ISK, then the overall pricing should stay more or less the same. The more things there are to do, that can be profitable, that are not ISK generating activities, the less ISK generating there will be.

Ideas, some of them ancient and certainly not mine:

POS slot rental
Clone making
Implant making
New unpopulated space with no rats and totally new materials (WH would have done this almost exactly, except for blue loot, which made sense at the time, now with PI done on planets, blue loot seems less a necessity.)
High Sec POCO
Mini POS/Personal POS/Homesteads (winter 2012?)
Stocks/Bonds
WiS related things
Dust related things

More stuff to do, more stuff to spend ISK upon, more consumption - Spread player time out over a more broad economic landscape. Spread the ISK out upon a more broad economic landscape.

Correct, it is not a sink. ISK spread over more production, more things for players to do other than shoot little red + signs and produce ISK. More things to trade, more markets to enter, more money going into the market - more money being removed via existing taxes and fees.

Less people shooting rats.

More sales and broker taxes are a really bad idea. All it will do is make small single step outfits totally unprofitable. Instead, you will have to take something all the way from gathering inputs to final product since every step along the way adds cost. When taxes are low the cumulative additional cost isn't so terrible for a 5 step process, but if taxes were say 10% at each step it would be a 46% increase in cost from inputs to final product. It is impossible to compete when your costs are so out of line from big outfits who don't pay those costs.

If I understand you correctly you are saying station trade taxes will be passed on to the consumer. The whole point of my post was to point out that it will NOT be passed on. Instead, big operations will simply build things from top to bottom tax free (vertical integration) while the small guys will be forced out of the market due to loses from taxes.

I highly doubt NPC corp mission runners account for a large portion of the isk faucets from bounties. It seems much more likely that 0.0 bots, complexes, anomalies, and ratters are the ones who take the lions share of bounties.

The massive printing of isk is totally unbalanced and undoubtedly a major cause of inflation. However, station trade taxes are a terrible isk sink. The most obvious solution is to hack bounties and isk faucets in general across the board until they match isk sinks. The isk can be replace with materials or something else (monocles? ).

Well, to be the concerned citizen of New Eden that I am, what am I getting for my taxes being increased other than my hard worked for iskies taken away for no apparent reason?

Universe Health Care??????

Why not just decrease the amount of raw ISK generated by missions, bounties and incursions, balancing it with an increase in salvage and/or item drops. Dropping them down to maybe a third and increasing the amount of items dropped on average to accommodate should do it, or even only halving it.

No new item should have been introduced in the past few years which depend on a single material source (such as "only minerals" or "only PI inputs").

If the problem CCP wants to solve is monetary inflation, then solve that problem by whacking the problem at its source, the generation of ISK. Attempting to play all these other hidden tax and fee games is quite honestly foolish.

Mmm, impact of corp/alliance bills on a monthly basis:

- A flat per-month fee per corp would ensure that long-dead corps get disbanded and their tickers get recycled.
- A per-month fee for the alliance would do the same for alliance tickers.
- It would act as an additional ISK sink.

Per-corp fees could be as low as 100-500k/mo. Alliance fees in the range of 10-20M/mo. Maybe alliances pay 2M ISK/mo per member corp. Maybe corps pay a fee of 1k ISK/member each month to buy membership capacity.

(shrugs) It's probably a horrid idea.