And for those legions that have at least at least x days upkeep already stored no tax should be taken.

-1 Some people can barely scrape by with their upkeep, what's a tax going to do to them? Some people worked hard to join the legions they did, should they be denied a good legion because they can't afford to pay extra?

Well I support this idea. And for those who are saying they are "crippled" by upkeep, uninstall a few modules. Generally, upkeep is only a small percentage of your income. My upkeep is less than 2% of my income. I only have 12m upkeep (I don't have any cannons installed), but I'm only a lvl 143. I get around 500m, if not more, a day AFTER the mineral-selling tax.

So I was thinking about how close our Legions are starting to mirror EVE corporations and started thinking.

Right now a Legion base is both infrastructure and military base rolled up in one. On EVE, infrastructure such as system and region ownership costs money. If you don't pay you cannot setup or operate advanced buildings such as X-large ship assembly arrays for building supercaps.

To help pay those fee's alliances levy taxes against their member corporations which in turn tax a certain % of their individual pilots.

So why not have the option that now makes donating minimum requirements automatic to the legion. Most of the code already exists as the abstract "tax" you get hit by just for selling minerals.

So if this change happens, legion leaders can set an adjustable auto-tax which will happen after the mineral tax occurs.
A standard aidonium is around 17,677,527
After the standard tax you would receive approximately 14,142,022.
Now if the legion tax existed, it would cut into that 14 billion and change and that tax money automatically goes directly to the legion base funds.

Assuming an average "fair" tax rate of 10% the legion would gain just over 1 billion off every aidonium if you sold only 1.

Now this auto tax will not stop players from donating more pon their own, and ensures all players are taxed relatively evenly by basing it on individual mineral sales.

Possible abuses:
1) tax rates set really high?
Response: suck it up, or find a new legion. Setting the maximum tax rate at for example 25% might fix that.
Also, Dan could add a list of all members, with a check-box next to them, those who are un-checked don't have to pay the taxes, thus helping those who barely scrape by or who are already donating lots of cash.
2) leaders who constantly adjust tax rates to give certain individuals lower tax rates?
Response: again suck it up or find a new home. making it so taxes can only be adjust once per day or so would fix this.

Right now donating to the legion base funds is built both upon honor system, and this just evens out the play field. If a pilot wants to donate 90% of their income let them. But this stops freeloaders, and you can always build the cash withdrawal base building to give funds back out. Or just set a 0% tax rate.

Looks good on the surface, but not everyone is in a position to donate to their base on a regular basis. Those who already struggle with upkeep could be crippled by this.

That aside, +1...

Can't say I agree with having a cap on the tax. But I'm used to having taxes go to 100% during an eve CTA as an incentive to show up.

The limit of 1 tax change a day is well thought and I will adjust first post as soon as my BlackBerry let's me.