How would I go about adding a tax system to money which the player earns?

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#1

I’m making a simple civilization-rp type game, similar to GRG or Thy Hood

I wanted to make a tax rate system, so any money that the player earns goes through a % tax, and they earn the inverse %. So if they were to make $2, and the tax rate is 50%, they are only given $1.
Problem is i am really confused on how i actually implement this, its incredibly confusing.

Im using a tax rate int value in replicated storage, and the player’s money is added to their leaderstats after performing an action which gives them money like chopping trees, harvesting crops, etc.

^ not really sure if some of that was necessary, but whatever

thanks for any replies!!

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#2

If your raw tax rate value is 0.5 (50%), then you can simply just do local taxedEarnings = actualEarnings - (actualEarnings*taxRate)

#3

Well naturally you could multiply the earned amount by the percent remaining for the player.

Earned money * (percentage left after tax, so if tax is 30%, you would put 70% or 0.7)

Earned Money (2) * 0.5 (50%) = 1

#4 
local Players = game:GetService("Players")

local function onAxeTouch(otherPart)
    local log = otherPart.Parent:FindFirstChild("treedetect")
    local treeHealth = log and log:FindFirstChild("TreeHealth")
	local profit = log:FindFirstChild("Profit")
	local taxrate = game.ReplicatedStorage.TaxRateValue.Value
	local moneytogive = profit - (profit*taxrate)
	
    if treeHealth then
        treeHealth.Value = treeHealth.Value - 1
        if treeHealth.Value <= 0 then
            local player = Players:GetPlayerFromCharacter(otherPart.Parent)
            if player then
                local leaderstats = player:FindFirstChild("leaderstats")
                local cash = leaderstats and leaderstats:FindFirstChild("Cash")
                if cash then
                    cash.Value = cash.Value + moneytogive
                end
            end
        end
    end
end

local function setupAxe(axe)
    local handle = axe:FindFirstChild("Handle")
    if handle then
        handle.Touched:Connect(onAxeTouch)
    end
end

ive got this code at the moment, trying to use what you suggested;
it does still work by adding the profit you’re meant to get, but it doesnt multiply the amount or anything

#5

Odd. What’s the value of taxrate and profit?

#6

the value of profit is 2, and the value of taxrate is 25

i mean thatd probably make the amount something like 50?? but i just wanted to see a result thatd sort of work

i mean, if i can get this to work at all im still not really sure how im going to get the money into the ruler’s bank or how to make it multiply correctly

#7

I’m a little confused on what the problem is here now, so your moneytogive should be 2 - (2*25) which would be 2 - 50 or -48, but you mentioned that it’s not multiplying the value, so moneytogive is just 2?
My head hurts lol

#8

well its supposed to be 75% of 2 so it should be giving 1.5, but it isnt multiplying at all or doing it correctly

#9

maybe your using an integer vale. An Integer is any Whole Number on both the negative and positive sides of 0.
Just change the value to a Number Value which will let you have any type of number, including rational/irrational (math.round() is a very helpful tool), integer, whole.