After playing for 12 hours - 5 hours into my New Game I was set to destroy another faction. I had my taxes running on Normal. Also My gold income was stable. around 30 per season with a sizeable unit count.

After my game crashed (played too long I presume), i restarted my computer and then reloaded my file.

My gold income was now negative (around -18). I tried to change the Taxes to High, Brutal etc, the gold income remained the same. (negative)

Any ideas if this is a bug or just something that I overlooked? (i tried to make a city idle - no luck - the gold income never changes even if I change the tax rate) if this helps - only the research rate changes, the gold income rate did not increase or decrease.