I compared my country to other countries that do 75% tax and 100% profit while I have 30% tax and 100% profit. I still have better profit output and income when I scale up.
Aries' Camp Kilo with 250 mil pop has 286 profit monthly and I have a 100 mil pop with 150 profit. If I scaled up to 250 mil, then I should funnily enough, have 375 billion monthly profit.
With your state corps, you're not somehow wrangling extra money out of it by putting higher extra taxes on it. Income will remain the same while costs just goes up higher and profit goes down.
Having taxes on your state corps is useless if you're doing 100% profit.
Let me put it to you this way, let's say you're opening up a franchise for McDonald's and you're opening it up as a state government and intend to have 100% profit transfer rate.
The monthly cost to run it with 0% tax is 50,000 dollars which includes supplies, salaries, property rental, and utilities.
The monthly income/revenue is 250,000 every month.
This would have a net profit of 200,000 every month going towards the state government.
This time around, you decide to have a 50% tax on McDonald's.
The cost now becomes 75,000 a month with the monthly income/revenue still being 250,000 every month. The regular cost is 50,000 with 25,000 added on top of it for taxes as that's considered cost.
The profit now becomes 175,000 every month going towards the state government. The taxes of 25,000 also goes towards the state government. But, in the end, the state government still gets the same amount which ends up being 200,000.
Changing taxes on state corps just files the money under a different category.
That's why the only reason to have higher taxes is to get more money out of your private and publicly controlled companies. Since there's no other way to obtain or ensure you get money.
The GMs could confirm this.