The house part sounds like what a lot of people have been looking for, albeit they were thinking of taxes it would still work!

It does work . It's pretty similar to taxes, really, it's the same thing I just call it rent.

I'll be renaming everything Simple Taxes soon! It's a more apt name, I think.

Very impressive mod concept. Are there variable tax rates by each hold?

Not yet. But I'm hoping to add something similar, or on a per house basis. It's just been released, so I'll build upon the features when I have time. Future plans right now:

FYI, a "thug" who is sent to collect money you owe (or beat you until you agree to make some sort of arangement) is referred to as a Collector..... Dont ask how I know these things.

Paying your taxes to the Stewards and Captains I say...

Also I think having certain titles should result in a tax rate reduction. For instance becoming Thane could give you a 10% tax cut. Would make working for those titles worth it, also it should be configurable.

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Here's some thoughts, ideas, and / or features:

I think the courier shouldn't show up immediately, you should have to miss a few payments first, and should be your responsibilty to pay your taxes to the holds steward or captian of the guards.

Like say you miss two payments, then the courier shows up as a friendly reminder for you to pay your past due taxes, with the option that you can pay the courier on the spot of course or with a little donation, aka bribe, maybe 100 gold (configurable of course), the courior would leave you be, atleast till you miss one more payment, then he'd come find you again. You'd have the option each time to bribe the courier to go away but the price would keep increasing by a 100 gold. Because the courier is taking increasing heat from his boss about not finding you.

Then if you miss one more payment after the courier finds you and after you stopped bribing him, then stiffer penalties are implamented. Such as the Bounty Hunters.

Alternative Penalties

After sleeping, or exiting an interior, you'd find your horse(s) gone, taken and impounded so to speak and have to visit the Steward and Captain of the hold, paying your back owed taxes with a penalty fee of course, say 10% extra.

With houses you could have the door be locked with an adept, expert or master lock (so the pc can sneak in and aquire any gear from within). If the player breaks in, have the locks be reapplyed again at noon the next day, maybe one step stronger lock then the last time. And if the player breaks in a second time have a group of Bounty Hunter eagerly waiting for the player inside.

If the player has missed 10 payments, then the player will lose ownership of the houses (the lock become unpickable) and horses (would be killed). Then the payments will stop, but you'd suffer a 5% late fee every week and would gain a certain amount of crime gold each week afterwards also, until you go to jail and serve your time.

The player could be allowed to make smaller payments but would not gain access to any of his houses or get his horse back until the full amount is payed.

After the 10 missed payment mark has been reached, as long as the player makes a payment of atleast 5% of what he owes before the late fee is applied, he wouldn't recieve the crime gold. Of course at this point he doesn't own the house anymore and would have to buy the house again to get access to it again and the horses are gone forever, so a new horse would need to be purchased.

All the above mentioned things would need each hold to track there own owed taxes. And which ever hold you wore in when your horses wore impounded would be the hold you need to pay to get your horses back.

And don't forget about followers, they need to get paid

^ YES!

I'll try to add as many of those as I can.

Followers will be added, but only with a manual option to add them to the count, since there is no even semi-reliable way to get the amount of followers you currently have.