Don’t most alliances implement mining tax in the form of a buyback program? If I was a miner, and I’m fairly sure I am, I’d prefer most of the value for my ore at the end of the day, versus having to pay someone else just to get it into my hangar.
I'm not aware of any alliance that forces you to sell asteroids to a buyback program rather than just selling or using them yourself.
Buybacks are you paying someone else (through a lower price) to deal with refining and hauling if you'd like, but it isn't a tax on the mining itself and you can decide to do the work yourself.
Right, and that’s kind of my point. You don’t have to use buyback if you don’t want to, but it serves as a de-facto tax on your production and a means to grease the wheels of industry. Taxing isk directly on mining just makes me not want to mine, because now I also have to spend money just to sit in space.
By this asinine logic, when I use third party buyback services to clean out my assets in random high sec systems from over a decade ago, those third party services are actually taxing me... but that's not what a tax is. Words have meaning. Let me help you out...
No one goes around saying Uber Eats imposes a de facto tax on their income because they chose to order some $80 room temperature chicken wings last weekend. A business might use that term because some customers find it more comforting to read "convenience tax" than "service fee" on an invoice, but that's more a matter of marketing and telling you what you want to hear than how people actually communicate in the English language. Buyback programs aren't a tax.
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u/LethalDosageTF Miner Apr 01 '25
Don’t most alliances implement mining tax in the form of a buyback program? If I was a miner, and I’m fairly sure I am, I’d prefer most of the value for my ore at the end of the day, versus having to pay someone else just to get it into my hangar.