You should check your own taxes. Also, Duke Kendal performed his own experiments for quite some time after the New Estate system went into place, and confirmed that he got more taxes with empty estates sized at 10% (100% efficiency), than he did with an empty estate sized at 40% (80% or so efficiency. And wildlands are automatically 100% efficient.
Well I can guarantee thats false simply based off math. 10*100%=10, 40*80%=32, 32>10. The % of the regions tax gold received would be 50% of that but that won't change the anything (16>5).
