Do you pay Taxes in Hyrule?

[TheGreatCthulhu]

*Kicks down door*
@Reiquel your under arrest for tax evasion

*keeps silent*

 

[Daku Rinku]

*keeps silent*

*Looks up your file for Hyrule Taxes*

Mrs Pascal TheGreatCthulhu

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

*Looks up your file for Hyrule Taxes*

Mrs Pascal TheGreatCthulhu

Everything's kosher tax assessor!

*my assistant is meanwhile shredding receipts and documents in a far away separate location all showcasing my business dealings with Gorons and Gerudo*

Just a business man, doing business!

 

[Saint Ravenboo]

This thread has turned into an RP thread. Move it to the RP section. XD.

 

[Daku Rinku]

Everything's kosher tax assessor!

*my assistant is meanwhile shredding receipts and documents in a far away separate location all showcasing my business dealings with Gorons and Gerudo*

Just a business man, doing business!

Do you swear on a stack of Hebrew National Hotdogs its all Kosher and I neeed not audit you?

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

Do you swear on a stack of Hebrew National Hotdogs its all Kosher and I neeed not audit you?

*I make unflinching eye contact*

I do.

 

[Malon]

Me just over here like:
'-' I don't pay taxes anywheres

 

[Saint Ravenboo]

Me just over here like:
'-' I don't pay taxes anywheres

That's it, you're going to jail. Oh wait, you're too young to pay taxes anyway. Nevermind.

 

[Malon]

That's it, you're going to jail. Oh wait, you're too young to pay taxes anyway. Nevermind.

Sigh... Adults these days... tsk tsk.

 

[Prince Sidon]

I know how you feel

 

[Dizzi]

do ghosts pay tax??

 

[Dio]

No. I think the Royal Family have rupees in the quadrillions as is shown by the wanted and reward posters in Hidden Village TP. They simply have no need to tax but have the wealth to employ any services they need for thousands of years including building of castles and armour making.

Resources are abundant in Hyrule any anyone has easy access to materials for crafting so lots of buildings are passion projects and not tax funded, instead they are commissioned by local people and because villagers spend in their local economies local businesses such as builders or potion shops are always kept afloat.

It is very difficult to starve in hyrule as food is cheap and in abundance. I would expect the people would reject taxes and rebel should the royals try to impose them.

 

[Saint Ravenboo]

No. I think the Royal Family have rupees in the quadrillions as is shown by the wanted and reward posters in Hidden Village TP. They simply have no need to tax but have the wealth to employ any services they need for thousands of years including building of castles and armour making.

Resources are abundant in Hyrule any anyone has easy access to materials for crafting so lots of buildings are passion projects and not tax funded, instead they are commissioned by local people and because villagers spend in their local economies local businesses such as builders or potion shops are always kept afloat.

It is very difficult to starve in hyrule as food is cheap and in abundance. I would expect the people would reject taxes and rebel should the royals try to impose them.

I'd have to disagree, all of those evidence doesn't indicate that they don't pay taxes, in fact every civilization that had wanted posters and resources to build things, also had to pay taxes.

 

[Dio]

I'd have to disagree, all of those evidence doesn't indicate that they don't pay taxes, in fact every civilization that had wanted posters and resources to build things, also had to pay taxes.

The absence of any mention of taxes in the games is the biggest indicator they don't pay taxes.

As I have said before, the royal family is so rich that they definitely don't need to demand taxes, especially of rupees. ever. They can afford to buy anything they want. That is very good evidence that hylians don't pay taxes because the amount of money required to even make a dent in the vast wealth of the Hylian royal families existing fortune could never be obtained by the collective of all Hyrules citizens for probably thousands of years because there just aren't many people living in Hyrule and the amount of money Hylians make isn't very much.

I would also like to point out that income tax did not exist before the 1700's in Europe and since Zeldas society is generally going for a medieval fantasy European vibe, income tax is also unlikely.

I will admit it is possible the crown asks for something like 1/10th of a farmers pumpkins or of a woodcutters wood. They don't have any collectors or a military presence in a lot of towns so whether they could enforce this is questionable. However people may feel loyalty to the crown and voluntarily donate.

Thinking deeper into it tax in the modern sense for Hyrule is almost definitely not a thing. But I could get on board with the idea of donation of goods to the crown.

 

[TheGreatCthulhu]

The absence of any mention of taxes in the games is the biggest indicator they don't pay taxes.

As I have said before, the royal family is so rich that they definitely don't need to demand taxes, especially of rupees. ever. They can afford to buy anything they want. That is very good evidence that hylians don't pay taxes because the amount of money required to even make a dent in the vast wealth of the Hylian royal families existing fortune could never be obtained by the collective of all Hyrules citizens for probably thousands of years because there just aren't many people living in Hyrule and the amount of money Hylians make isn't very much.

I would also like to point out that income tax did not exist before the 1700's in Europe and since Zeldas society is generally going for a medieval fantasy European vibe, income tax is also unlikely.

I will admit it is possible the crown asks for something like 1/10th of a farmers pumpkins or of a woodcutters wood. They don't have any collectors or a military presence in a lot of towns so whether they could enforce this is questionable. However people may feel loyalty to the crown and voluntarily donate.

Thinking deeper into it tax in the modern sense for Hyrule is almost definitely not a thing. But I could get on board with the idea of donation of goods to the crown.

Now comes the real evil.

It isn't Ganon or Demise, but something far more evil that is Malice incarnate.....

And that's taxes and tax assessors.