Yeah, you're just changing a graphic. To not get any more emails would require a coding change which is certainly beyond my ability to do. The smaller icons right by the computers still flash, just not the big in your face icon in the upper right corner. By getting rid of the big one, it's so much easier to ignore the emails, but you can still see the smaller icons flash for when you want to check out a marriage proposal. Worked our rather nicely that way.

Unfortunately, there isn't a way to differentiate between the annoying emails and the marriage proposals, so you're still going to end up getting some of those, but once you get married, you won't have to deal with it at all unless you want to. After 20 generations for me the emails were just annoying and boring as I had gotten them all before.

There actually is a way to avoid paying the tax!

I already figured that out! Since I seldom get the tax credit(don't know why that one is so rare), I don't feel TOO bad.