Suggestion: Option to turn of town staff tax exemption

[LlmDl]

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 639

Make the town staff tax exemption optional.

Reported by generilisk on 2012-01-16 11:12:16

[LlmDl]

Kind of pointless since town staff can take money back from the townbank.

Reported by Hurfapotamus on 2012-01-16 19:10:11

[LlmDl]

However, our player base has a tendency to promote most/all of their members to assistants.
On top of that, money isn't taken from mayors for 1-man towns, deleting them from people
who aren't very familiar with the plugin. I'm not saying force it off, but as a server
admin, I'd prefer that off by default, with the option to turn it on in town settings.

Reported by generilisk on 2012-01-16 20:55:22

[LlmDl]

The problem is that they're promoting many people to assistant, have them demoted and
teach the mayors how to use their town's plot-perms in order to let people build where
they should. The assistant group is for people in an extra-mayor position. If you want,
request an additional group on top of assistants.

Reported by Hurfapotamus on 2012-01-18 03:57:16

[LlmDl]

Fine, have assistants and officials.  Town officials would be exempt from taxes.  Make
it possible for a player to be in both groups so that you may have players with assistant
powers and then players with "officials" powers.

Reported by dominioncraft on 2012-01-19 21:21:31

[LlmDl]

This is still screwing over the 1-man towns. I'm not saying force it off, just asking
for another option.

Reported by generilisk on 2012-01-19 21:23:17

[LlmDl]

I agree it is also one of those pain points for new players/servers using towny.  A
simple config to disable staff exemption would be helpful.  Better solution, imo, is
to have it something a town can toggle with server admins setting the default to on
or off.  

Reported by mcparadiseadventure@yahoo.com on 2012-03-09 18:53:56

[LlmDl]

I like the idea from comment 6...is this something that is being considered? Our one-man
towns would appreciate it.

Reported by generilisk on 2012-05-10 05:53:42

[LlmDl]

Reported by LlmDlio on 2012-08-29 02:08:53

• Status changed: WontFix

[LlmDl]

I would definitely like the ability to turn this off. 

Reported by TxTPB.test on 2012-09-12 23:16:43

[LlmDl]

I would also like to see this ability, especially server wide.  I find that many people
do put all their money into the town bank, to prevent from loosing money when they
die.  Forcing staff of towns to pay taxes will prevent this, as the mayors are required
to hold directly onto funds, and thus they cannot just keep collecting money from their
residents, otherwise they themselves will be kicked from the town.  Additionally I
understand that staff is able to withdraw from towns, however with the staff being
force, it also force them to be more active on the server to maintain their position
in their town!  Just some things to think about!

Reported by bhagg12 on 2014-07-20 01:42:04

[LlmDl]

This is now controlled by a permission node towny.tax_exempt, you can now also make
players pay for deaths personally, from teh townbank and the nationbank.

Reported by LlmDlio on 2014-07-20 05:16:19

[LlmDl]

OK I am aware of the permission, however is it supposed to be used in the townyperm.yml
file or in another permissions plugin?  Additionally does the permission just negate
the tax exemption?  As of currently the Towny.tax_exempt permission is not present
in either of the permissions files, and yet staff are still exempt from paying taxes.
 So I assumed it still hadn't been fixed.  Also players on my server do pay for death,
however it seems that players only pay when they are killed by mobs or other players.
 Is there a new version of town that I'm not aware of?

Reported by bhagg12 on 2014-07-20 11:44:22

[LlmDl]

If you run 0.88.0.0 then you'll have the new death-price feature.

From the nodes wiki page:

"towny.tax_exempt – Grant this permisison to any rank you do not want to pay taxes.
** ONLY works in TownyPerms **. Will not work in external permission plugins."

Make sure the mayor and assistant ranks dont have it.

Make sure you're running an up to date version of towny.

Reported by LlmDlio on 2014-07-20 15:12:10

[LlmDl]

OH OK!  That means that I am slightly out dated, I must have missed the newest update.
 Thanks for getting this to me, and thanks for the help!  I will make sure that towny.tax_exempt
is NOT in my townyperms folder after I update the plugin!  Thanks again!

Reported by bhagg12 on 2014-07-27 03:00:32