The rulebook, right now

About these figures

These are the live values from the game's own economy policy — the same feed our tax engine reads, refreshed as the studio rebalances. When a rule here disagrees with a guide (including ours), this page wins.

Official policy v4

Income tax mode

bands

Top band rate

7.0%

Tax-free allowance

₦1,000,000

Tax bands

The standing marginal schedule — it governs whenever the tax mode reads bands, as it has since policy v4 (17 October 2026).

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basic	₦10,000,000	7.0%
higher	₦50,000,000	7.0%
top	No cap	7.0%
Nothing matches.

VIP tiers

From ₦1bn net worth the game re-prices your world: prices multiply, winnings get taxed extra, earnings scale up to match.

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₦1,000,000,000	7%	×10	×1
₦100,000,000,000	7%	×50	×1
₦1,000,000,000,000	7%	×100	×3
Nothing matches.

HANDI trade licence prices

Per-job cap — · premier jobs — · rating multiplier ×— — buy the licence once, then take gig-board jobs in that trade.

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plumber	₦0
carpenter	₦0
electrician	₦0
technician	₦0
fumigator	₦0
Nothing matches.

Player-shop price bands

Player shops price their stock as a multiple of the base price, inside these official bands.

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food	×0.8	×2.5
provisions	×0.8	×2.5
fashion	×0.8	×2.5
pharmacy	×0.8	×2.5
Nothing matches.

Caps & limits

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Business portfolio cap	₦0
Single business cap	₦0
P2P transfers per day	₦10,000,000
Hustle payout cap (per gig)	₦10,000,000
HANDI job cap	₦0
EFCC wealth-levy threshold	₦100,000,000,000
Nothing matches.

The rest of the rulebook

EFCC: Wealth levy on flagged fortunes — one flag per day, rest days between cases, 24h to appear. Keep your fortune's source clean.
Land: Starting plots and a soft cap before diminishing returns — Spec app.
Trust score: Unlocks bigger P2P moves at each tier — built from account age, send history and streaks.

See how the rules changed Plan a week under these rules

Values come straight from the game's official economy policy feed, fetched by our daily snapshot. The Money & Tax tools read the same source, so calculators and this page always agree.

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