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It's logical that something like this should be implemented. When I started playing bb, good managers could win Div I by spending 7-8m, and you could reach that level from DIV, DV in 7-8 seasons. Now you need more than 20m (at least in Serbia), pretty soon it will be more than 25m. It takes too much time for new managers to reach that level, and even when they can afford to spend so much money, there may always be some 'tanking for 20 season' team, who can spent 30-40m in a season, and buy the trophies.
I was also planning to have more than 20m in a few season time, so this would affect my team and my plans as well.

I don't have a problem with taxes being high, something like this:
For every dollar, the taxes would raise for 0.0000001%. Which would mean:
- Budget of 0$, weekly taxes are 0$
- Budget of 500k, weekly taxes are 0.25k
- Budget of 1m, weekly taxes are 1k
- Budget of 5m, weekly taxes are 25k
- Budget of 10m, weekly taxes are 100k
- Budget of 15m, weekly taxes are 225k
etc.
So nobody would have more than 15-20m and lower league teams would barely feel it.

Those who are saying that there would be super-inflation if this happens, you're forgetting that it also means there would be less money in the game, so super-inflation may happen in the first few weeks after the taxes are implemented, but after that, it will all be back to normal, the prices may even be lower than they are now.

Agree with you. I also think that increasing the number of players on the market through FA and encouraging people to spend on those players (through hoarding tax) could rejuvenate the transfer market- also making it easier for new teams to pick up some nice ok players, hopefully increasing new manager retention!

Players of banned teams don't get FA'd

We’re also planning a couple of changes next season which are worth mentioning now. {1} The big one is that the promotion bonuses will be increased! We cannot disclose the exact numbers yet, but the new bonuses will help promoting teams survive in their new leagues. {2} Also, a new “luxury/hoarding tax” is being considered. Teams that have amassed extremely large sums of money will be taxed to disincentivize hoarding. More details to come next season.

I think those are both excellent steps. Hopefully the money taken out of the game by taxing the hoarders will be far more more than the money introduced by the bonuses. If the net result is another increase in the money in the game, it will be just another step backwards, taking us still farther toward inflation of an interplanetary scale. "Next season" has a good sound to it, too.

I am interested to hear why people think the new taxes, along with the change in FA's, will cause inflation. Money out of the game and more players in the game will obviously NOT cause inflation, quite the opposite. Of course, hoarders dumping vast sums into the economy will disrupt the game intolerably, but I suspect Marin is smart enough to prevent that, (even though he wants more money and fewer players in the game to "reward" training, which still seems unchanged no matter how badly it needs reform.)

I suppose we should all hope that the somewhat vague description of the FA change is not a repeat of last season, when it sounded so promising that there would be a better supply of FA's only to find out later the announcement was misleading and FA's were actually reduced.