Uh.. I don't think we can answer that for you. SI have said that they have different tax calculations for different nations, depending on their understanding of business tax law for that nation.
In some nationalities, taxes would be proportional to your profit, not your total income.
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Incidentally, I was paying close attention to the financial side during FM'05. I noted that in some years, end-of-season activities such as television revenue (which, at the time, came in as a lump sum) would get scheduled to the year concluding, and sometimes they would get scheduled to the year beginning.
So, if the annual TV income were £10M, I might see that applied as follows:
2010/11: £10M
2011/12: £20M
2012/13: £ 0M
2013/14: £10M
Taxes, however, were calculated on the per-season basis, so this played havoc with my ability to predict what tax payments were going to be. Obviously, for taxes based on the 2011/12 season, taxes would be very high .. but taxes based on the 2012/13 season would be much lower.
I also think that the game's got some real confusion between "Cash Flow" and what a business would call "Profit and Loss". For example, investing £10M in a player does not mean that the club "lost £10M" .. it means that the club converted £10M into an asset - the player. If the club then proceeded to sell the same player on for £5M, yes, you would say that they lost £5M on him. However, the game looks at that as "lost £10M", "made £5M" .. which is subtly wrong.
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