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This is a version of monopoly where, every time you pass Go, you
pay
a tax on all the money you have collected since you last passed
Go,
and a tax on all the houses you own, aswell as a poll tax, taken
from
the money that you collect as you pass Go (probably about £25). If
you are very
poor, and have few properties, you can claim benefits
(10% percent of whatever is in Free Parking), and all money
collected from tax goes into Free Parking. Benefit fraud and tax
dodging ("Buy Whitehall? Me? I don't think I did" type tactics) would
mean you are sent to jail. Also, you would pay 15%
VAT on everything you buy.
The game, however would only get
really interesting when people got rich enough to move their
money
and the deeds to their property offshore, meaning they wouldn't
have
to pay any tax on that object. There would be a charge to move
individual items (you can't do it all in one go), but once on the
'Offshore Mat' (supplied to each player when a certain amount of
money is given to the middle) the item is no longer taxed. To earn
money back, you can move things from the Offshore Mat, and are
paid fixed amount from the middle (which would be less than you
originally paid to move your finances offshore, you tax evading
bastard!).
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If this is an American monopoly game, you still need to file for all of your offshore assets, and pay tax on any interest, profit, or wages earned. So while you may not pay property tax, you'll still (in theory) pay tax on rental income, depending on your foreign tax credits claimed. |
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//Benefit fraud and tax dodging ("Buy Whitehall? Me? I don't think I did" type tactics) would mean you are sent to jail.// |
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Wouldn't the game get rather bogged down in legal proceedings? |
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Also, if the government is represented by a player (like the bank) who sits at the table with the other players, how will you make certain facts (such as ownership of Whitehall) visible at rent-collection time but invisible at tax-assessment time? |
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[pertinax] you can hide cards under the table quite easily |
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//Wouldn't the game get rather bogged down in legal
proceedings? // |
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Hehe.... almost certainly, but that could add interest once
people get good at it |
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I would mortgage all my properties, repackage (or "securitize") all these mortgages as a new debt instrument, together with a couple of rock-solid bonds bought from another player to give the whole package a veneer of respectability, and then sell this debt at attractive rates of interest to all the other players who have spare cash. My property management company would pay me this cash as a bonus for managing the deal and route this to my private Cayman Islands account. I'd then default on the mortgages, thus plunging the other players into bankruptcy which would be made worse when it was discovered that all my properties had in fact been bought with dodgy loans raised against my anticipated future earnings which were then hidden in illegal "off balance sheet" companies. |
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oh, yeaw, me and my family might attempt to play this
tonight (having nothing better to do) |
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The new game is played with credit cards and no paper money. If you converted that into a computer game that could be run as the bank that uses a camera aimed at the board to monitor actions, this could work. |
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yeaw, but then there would be little to argue about |
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Its either computer based, or at least comes with a PDF to reprint all the tax forms. |
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"You have won second prize in a beauty contest. Please remember to fill out a 785-B and include it with your tax return." |
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//I would mortgage all my properties, repackage (or "securitize") all these mortgages as a new debt instrument// |
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Sounds more like "Clueless". |
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So relieved this one isn't in public:government. Croissant. |
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hahaha.... not that it would make much
difference....
there could even be a "recession; taxes
raised by 10%" card |
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We have now attempted to play this. As we have the old
version, it came down to me with a notepad to work out
everyone's tax.
It sort of worked, but I highly reccomend
that this is played electronically. |
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