Alexander's Taxes (Part-2)

The previous example was not the only accounting trick Alexander had up his sleeves. Another one was his funding of the Tibian cities. 

This money that was given to the local nobles to run the cities was of course not free but was either treated as a lump sum loan that was to be slowly repaid or to give Alexander some other type concession- such as letting him place troops in the noble's personal lands, marry off their daughters to people loyal to Alexander, or even converting to the Gaia faith and swearing fealty to him both in this life and the next.

Thus really Alexander was converting much of his money into influence- it was not an expense but an investment.

And the third and last reason why Alexander's 'official' revenue was so small was because- well Alexander was rich enough to be able to afford it. He did not need this money right now.