Factions like Les Chats Noirs and the Red Vardo Trading Company need licenses that cover a specific number of employees for a year but do not name the employees because members come and go, and some days one person is selling and some days another is. It doesn't matter in terms of revenue (and therefore taxes) if Joe sells 7 days a week and Fred sells 0, or if Joe sells 4 days and Fred 3. What matters is the number of employees selling at one time. So, corporate licenses should be valid for whoever carries them. Control of how many people are selling at one time comes in the form of the number of copies issued.
Example: Tabby paid for 5 copies of a corporate license. It shouldn't matter who is selling things for Les Chats, just so long as no more than 5 people are selling at a time. Since she only had 5 copies, it wasn't possible for more than 5 people to be selling at once. Now, of course, everything is messed up and she has one valid license giving her the right to sell things personally. This is useless. Tabby doesn't sell things in the outskirts, that's what employees are for. Les Chats paid extra for a Corporate license that covers unspecified employees. That's what we had, we don't have that any more. What difference does it make if one person sells things all year on one copy of a license, or if two people sell for six months each on the same license, or three for four months each? In terms of revenue and taxes, it makes no difference at all. When you work at a bar, at least here in the US, you don't need a liquor license in your own personal name. The bar you work in has a license to sell liquor that covers any employees over the age of 21 without specifying them by name. It would be a complete hassle otherwise.
So, the wording of corporate licenses
-: City of Vallaki Trading License :-
This license is issued to the organization known as (insert company/faction name here) of (insert base city of faction here), granting permission to sell the following material(s) within the jurisdiction of the City of Vallaki for the year (insert year here).
(list materials here)
The BEARER of this document asserts that he or she is a duly appointed representative or employee of the above named organization and has received this document lawfully from said organization, and is therefore permitted to trade in the above named materials on behalf of the above named organization. Questions concerning any irregularities in the behaviour or trading of the bearer of this document should be directed to the current leadership or recognized representative of said organization.
If this document is stolen or lost, the above organization must report it's disappearance within 7 days or be subject to fine.
For Count and City
Signed,
Nicolai Ionelus, Burgomeister of Vallaki
*seal of the Burgomeister of Vallaki*
So, may I please have 5 copies of something like this? The license Tabby has right now is no use to us at all.
[edit] I'd actually settle for 3 copies. And if you want to change the tax laws so that each copy costs the same as an individual license, making us owe you another 6700 (4,000 x 2 - 500 paid for employees - 800 paid for additional copies) that's fine. The important thing is that each copy of the license be used by any member of the group, but no single copy used by more than one at the same time. Few people want to spend
all their time selling things in the outskirts, so it's better to be able to rotate the actual merchants. More fun for all that way.
Thanks for reading.
