Hey! Thanks for the feedback :) Glad you liked the art!
We didn't want tax payment to become an annoying thing you'd have to do evey 60 seconds, or something you'd lose to if you forget to click the pay button. As you said, since the game moves from a clicker to an idle game having a way to pay the taxes automatically whenever you can, seemed appropiate.
The game keeps your money because we were planning on having a save feature (so if you restart the game you could keep playing from where you left it) but we ran out of time for the jam and only saved the cash ^^. So it just gives you a head start for your next game for now
Thanks for playing!