Upkeep, Taxes & Bankruptcy

Towny Upkeep

Towny Upkeep plays an important role in the economy on the server, and is required to keep everything as balanced as possible. It also gives you a good reason to keep grinding and of course making money, The amount of upkeep you pay is dependant on how many people are in your land, not on how many chunks you have claimed.

Towny Rank	Claim Chunks	Cashback % on BuyBack
Default	£500	75
Ruins	£500	0
Settlement	£1000	1
Hamlet	£3000	1
Village	£8000	2
Town	£15000	3
Large Town	£21000	4
City	£26000	5
Large City	£35000	6
Metropolis	£41000	7

Town Taxes Some towns may have taxes enabled to help the mayor pay for their town's upkeep. You can view a town's taxes by using the /t <town name> prices in-game. When the money is taken from your balance, it is put directly into the town bank.

Town taxes are taken daily at 11pm GMT from the town bank

As the mayor of the town, you can choose how much you want to tax your fellow residents using /t set taxes <amount>, or alternatively you can use /t toggle taxpercent to set tax to be a percentage of your resident's balance.

Using "percentage tax" may discourage players from wanting to join your town, as players with a high balance may be excessively taxed.

Bankruptcy

In order to prevent your town from going bankrupt, you must have enough money credited in your town bank to pay your town's upkeep each day. If you cannot pay the amount that is due, your town will enter into what is known as a bankrupt state and the bank will go into the negatives. In this state you will not be able to make any adjustments to your town until you put enough money in the bank to reach a positive bank balance again.