tax rate?

do i keep tax rate at 50% or can i increase it?

You can do waht ever you want but if you go to high your loyalty will decrease

If I were you I'd have it at 25. Right now mine is at 35 but it depends on your population.

The best way at making money and having the most resources income would be setting the tax rate at 50%. However, just be sure that your max population is twice the required labor force. By the way, you might want to make sure you can DEFEND your city otherwise your 50% loyalty can be dropped to 0 really fast.

actually I've found it's better to keep your tax rate at just high enough to cover the cost of your heroes,only raising it as your heroes go up in level as necessary,it's easyer and faster making money by raiding Barb. citys and selling excess resources,not only is it faster but you can make way more than you can with taxes...and you'll keep your loyalty up.

tax rate affects loyalty, and loyalty affects population.
the higher it is the lower the population you get.
don't worry about gold early in the game,
you won't have a need for it till later on ^_^

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You can set ur tax rate at any % when u're online.. More tax = more gold however population number will decrease and the overall gold gained will decrease with time as well. When u're offline make sure ur tax rate is 50% or above unless u have lots of gold, if not ur heroes may run away.

Loyalty doesn't give you anything but levy and city being conquered easier. Levy can be $$ depending on market prices.

For max income Tax is 50%.

Proof.
(L) Loyalty
(PL) population limit
(SP) Stable Population
(G) grievances
(TR) tax rate
(I) Income/hr

SP = PL * (L/100)
L= 100 - (G) - (TR)
Income/hr (I) = SP * (TR/100)

Thus
SP = PL * [ (100 - G - TR) /100)

Assuming no Greivances

I = PL * (SP/100) *(tr/100)

and

I(max) = PL * (.5) * (.5)

50% tax is your best tax rate