If you want to levy taxes in full, the Governor must send troops for armed tax collection.
Just like the "Armed Tax Inspection Division" of the Pioneer Guiding Colonial Trading Company, active on the east-west trade route.
However, the latter mainly targets foreign merchant ships, which is part of privateering activities that allow everyone in the local powers to share the benefits through consumption diversion.
The former is different, collecting three years' worth of taxes at once is bound to offend everyone to the bone.
Even decades later, it will be remembered.
Moreover, many industries in the colony have domestic dignitaries backing them. If you tax them as well, you will lose the grassroots support and be isolated by all the upper nobility.
At that point.
Edward IV might just say, I wasn't aware, this is all temporary... Ahem, something the Count of Torrentfort did behind my back, and wash his hands clean of responsibility.
