Sorry Jinx but I completely disagree with setting yourself a hard limit on your demands (I also hate the word "tax" as I've stated elsewhere). Fair enough and good for you if you want to play nice, but generally a role as a pirate dictates the opposite. The topic is "what is the maximum you can tax" and my stance is there should not be a maximum. You're saying 2 million, and that is a personal preference of either you or your character.
What I'm trying to get across is if people keep stating their personal limits here, you'll end up with some mean number, and that average of X million will appear to people reading this as an agreed upon gentlemen's law. There is nothing dictating what the maximum amount you can tax is and there should not be for the reasons I have already stated.