Remove them already please.
When continent tune happened there was word from wiz's that they were going to
be removed. Please follow through with this.

My understanding is that the taxes were to keep cities smaller in the old map
because it was getting way too crowded. Now we don't have that problem, and
could add more continents as needed. I know the wizzes mentioned some sort of
income system to cities based on surrounding terrain, but why not just remove
taxes and then you can do whatever that other system is sometime in the
future.
I do think something should be done in order to prevent people from doing
stuff like spelling their name out across the map or such...that could be done
either programmatically by coding requirements that force a city into a
clustered shape, or like most rules, can be just made as a rule that is
punishable by city removal.

One reason I think we need bigger cities is simply the fact that we have so
many shop modules these days (which is good), but most cities try to cram this
all into one block to save on costs...which ends up making things too crowded
to look nice and be user friendly. At this point, I think the minimum shopping
district would need to be 1.5 to 2 blocks in size. In the face of cities like
arelium, would it really be too much to get some space into pcities too? .

1) I like someone else's suggestion that you announce a date a few months in
the future, and say that as of that date, all taxes need to be paid, and after
that date, no taxes are due. If a city needs more time, perhaps you allow
another 3 month grace in which they continue to accrue interest then are
finally shut down or penalized.

2) I doubt existing player city owners will prefer to pay taxes for a longer
time just to make other players need to pay that much too...

3) Prepaid taxes should be returned to players.

4) Another possible "fair" solution is to find the average 'late' time on
taxes, and pay back above-average cities, and come up with a way to bill the
out of date cities. This would reduce the amount of one-time payment for
past-due cities, while not giving them a break over the current cities.

5) As the carrot approach to get past-due cities to pay up, offer some fancy
new features/benefits/etc for pcities. Like talk of the income from terrain or
whatever, or some free modules, or something, and you don't get those if you
don't catch up in time.

I suspect that at this point with the taxes being pending obsoletion, people
are going to be less likely to pay taxes, so if there is going to be an
"even-up", it's probably best to announce a date for it sooner than later .

Its not like we dont need money drains in the game we do.
AND its not like your all that penalized for living in a city where the owner
isnt on much.
Just get to the tax office yourself.