A way to increase profits.

[*DemonAbyss10]

Daevos tears out a sheet from his journal and hands it to the factol.

A way tae increase our profits. By Daevos.

I am writing this as a result of comparin my career back home to how we all do taxing here. We all know profit is priority, but cranking up the taxes just drives off business. Ye jes have to lower it enough tae attract more potential business people to tax. A small drop in the rates is more than made up for each business that opens.

Les say right now ye tax 100 out of every 1000 jink. And there are 10 businesses. That is 1000 jink in our coffers. But what if that rate provides no growth in the number of businesses.  Now les say it gets lowered maybe 10%. That would be 90 per business, which may seem lower at first. Until ye factor in the increased job growth. Les say it doubles to 10 jobs. that is 1800 jink instead of 1000 jink due tae job growth. More businesses we can get inta sigil, the more jink fer us.

He would leave this on the Factols ((or whoever it should be turned into's desk))

[*Agony_Aunt]

((I'm assuming you are actually handing the essay to a clerk, as there are no factols, just a Factol, and its unlikely you would be granted a meeting with Darkwood without a very good reason))

Daevos,

That would be Namer Daevos? Are you sure you chose the right career? Tax less to tax more? I've never heard something so preposterous in my life!

We have berks running circles around our collectors and you are suggesting giving them a break?

We need to squeeze you understand? Squeeze the fat merchants for every bent copper piece you can get from them. It is the only way!

I certainly will not be passing your so-called essay along to the higher ups! I would be the laughing stock of the accounting department should I do that!

And you didn't even have the decency to offer me a cut!

You are a disgrace to the Faction!

Clerk Alfred Carpenter

((Make of it what you will ))

[*deusex2]

(((Yeah! And it's Rylif's job to make a fool out of himself! Err...From time to time :unsure: ...Oh and squeeze gently )))

[*DemonAbyss10]

Daevos just shrugs and has the following response. " Yes, and when every bit of business leaves entirely because of all the taxes, we will take an even bigger loss. I shall continue on as I always have, but it is something to keep in mind. And I forgot to mention. Once job growth increases, that is when we raise it to the limit." He will grin at the last statement, his silver and gold as well as a few missing teeth being exposed, the scent stench of stale rum and grog wafting forwards as he says the very last bit.
"So don't worry much. at the end, what we bring in will be much, much higher than if we didn't. In the meantime to make up for the short term losses I would recommend increasing the tax on walking and talking as well as extending our reach further, perhaps to some primes such as Abeir-toril, ebberon, Oerth and such. With a larger amount of taxable individuals comes a greater profit. Considering which we should tax the parents of newborn infants and children for every time they cry.

He would then hand over his takings for the week to the proper individuals. It would total to a nice hefty sum, most likely due to intimidation and a few broken knees and the like, especially since some of the jink would be covered in dried blood. He is obviously useful for squeezing people for their jink if the risk is low enough.

[*Agony_Aunt]

((Grab me in game for a faction point for the takings))

[*DemonAbyss10]

Daevos would walk in yet again, the stench of stale grog wafting about. He seems to be a wee bit bubbed up, yet somehow maintains his wits, balance and whatnot. He pulls out a sheet of parchment obviously stained with grog, and perhaps a bit sticky. "Ye may be wantin tae review anudder idear aye 'ave." He grins, exposing silver, gold, and missing teeth. "Ah say we aught tae get into banking."

The sheet of parchment would read as follows.

I think we need tae expand our avenues of income. Where aye come from, bankin is a huge business. We open these offices (that seem unaffiliated to us of course.) to store the jink of the berks tha populate sigil.) In exchange, we take a cut.

Said 'banks' can also do loans. Give a berk some money tha dey need to pay back. THe catch being we charge dem a fixed rate of extra jink owed on top of it every so often, les say a day, or ah week. If te sod doesn't pay up. tae fees accumulate. we can den "repossess" all of dere belongings, and break some kneecaps if need be.

Regardless of response, he would start accumulating as much jink as possible for his plans for sigil.