Public funds

[allan_boa]

What are my levers to manage public funds ?

I should be able to play with both public revenues and expenses.

How can I act on my state expenses ? Is there any global way to reduce military expenses through awareness level or similar (like in EU4 for example) ? Is there something else I should know about ?

I understand I can act on a series of taxes and on the global economic activity by boosting trade for instance (to get a higher tax assessment basis) but is there anything else I can do to boost my public funds ?

Thx.

[loki100]

Not really to be honest.

As you've seen, state funds come from taxes, and you either increase tax rates or increase the tax base (pop growth, more merchant ships etc). As S-P you will gain a large windfall when unification happens (the AI tends to over-horde state cash).

You spend it on replacements, event and decision cards and on military maintenance. Since S-P has a standing army, this makes it unwise to expand the starting army by much till you have all of Italy.

You lack the population to underpin a much larger army (and if you run out of replacement chits you will lose a lot of elements) and its expensive. I think all I bought up to 1859 was more artillery (a very good idea), some marines (cute hats, have been pretty useful) and more merchant ships, maybe, if I recall, one more regular corps.

So the only expense you can safely skip are the costs of regional decisions and colonial actions (these draw on state funds) and the only income is higher taxes or more activity.

[unclejoe]

If you keep your troops out of Harsh climates and from Traveling much or fighting.....they won't need replacements and that will save cash.

[Jim-NC]

What are my levers to manage public funds ?

I should be able to play with both public revenues and expenses.

How can I act on my state expenses ? Is there any global way to reduce military expenses through awareness level or similar (like in EU4 for example) ? Is there something else I should know about ?

I understand I can act on a series of taxes and on the global economic activity by boosting trade for instance (to get a higher tax assessment basis) but is there anything else I can do to boost my public funds ?

Thx.

There is one more way to get state funds (than the others listed). Convert gems/gold to state funds. You can convert your gold and gems to state funds. If you do it too often, you get an increase in inflation. Also, Exploitation and Collection centers produce state funds.