PLEASE NOTE:

If you don't have all of the following mods installed (my social clubs, go to court, hairdresser and boutique mods) then please download the other package. Open it up and replace the Opportunity XML with the one in the MAIN taxes and benefits package. Also included are the relevant opportunities for each of the above mods, just in case you only have one or two of the four installed.

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One of my sims was earning a little too much money and somehow this spiralled into me developing this mod. Introducing a very configurable tax and benefit system alongside an all new active career!

The tax and benefit system is modelled after the system we have here in England. All tax and benefit options are configurable and sims will only be opted in if you want them to. See the included documentation for a proper feature breakdown.

Updates [30/5/25]

• Russian Translation added - big thank you to nessysims!

There are three types of taxes:

• Council Tax (a property tax)
• Business Tax
• National Insurance (an income tax)

Register sims for each type of tax through the city hall.

There are four types of benefits:

• Universal Credit
• Housing Benefit
• Child Benefit
• Job Seekers Allowance

Register sims online, through social interactions with the all new Civil Servant, or at a HSRC communications booth.

Civil Service Career

Work for the HSRC in this fully functional active career.

There are 36 jobs which can be completed: 27 are custom career opportunities (like in the private eye career), 9 of them are custom active jobs (like in the interior decorator or firefighter career).

Jobs include: checking benefit eligibility for sims around town, attending job fairs, auditing, community outreach, responding to council house repair requests, and things of that nature.

Communication Booth

Civil Servants are given communication booths which can be placed anywhere in the world. This object has 2 geostates and can be set up or packed down when not needed.

Council Houses

Properties that are not owned by a sim are council houses. There are some unique interactions for these homes. For one, they can be more susceptible to pests (if enabled in the tuning, that is).

Complain to the Council

Depending on the type of property the sim lives in, they can complain to the council about housing issues such as overcrowding, broken facilities, or vermin.

Social Interactions

There are 12 new social interactions found under Friendly, Funny and Mean.

• Help Understand Welfare System – Civil Servant Only
• Complain About Taxes
• Accuse of Benefit Fraud
• Suggest Part Time Job – Civil Servant Only
• Joke About Fraud
• Talk About Benefits
• Talk About Career History
• Hand Out HSRC Leaflet – Civil Servant Only
• Warn About Fraudulent Behaviour – Civil Servant Only
• Offer Council House Repairs – Civil Servant Only

Including 2 autonomous only interactions:

• Talk About Shared Career History
• Talk About Shared Benefit Claims

Some interactions are only visible after doing things such as paying taxes. Some interactions are specific to the Civil Service career.

Optional

• Seasons EP – adds tax refunds, tax fluctuations and council house scenarios
• Showtime EP – adds extra interaction to communications booth
• World Adventures EP- adds extra active job
• My Boutique Mod, Hairdressing Mod, Go to Court Mod – adds extra work opportunities
• My social clubs mod – adds extra work opportunity and some optional integration with Bronzo banking
• My functional printer mod – makes use of buff
• Olomaya Smoking & Private Clinic (optometry module) mod - illness buffs taken into account with trying to claim some benefits.

Uninstallation

You can use cheat ‘uninstallTaxesBenefits’ in order to remove all mod related objects and data before uninstalling.