Hmm, I thought about those city taxes and I have been paying them since they
came and nothing to complain but... Im just wondering, to what kingdom we
belong? To what council we pay taxes for? I came to an idea that each city, or
should we say, castle, is separate and therefore each inhabitant in those
castle should pay the taxes for just the city? Implement another way to take
money from game, for example, someone has to upkeep the city shops/walls/houses
and that might even add flavour to the merchant guild? The "taxes" that
inhabitants (including council!) pay/should pay would be comparable to the
city "rotting" time? And the tax per person would be count of the amount of
owned houses?

This is bs, but maybe an idea?