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Bill: Corporate tax shifting
Details
Submitted by[?]: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2095
Description[?]:
| Those companies exceeding Lodamun's environmental regulations should be entitled to a tax break. By lowering overall corporate taxes, the economy will be stimulated and more jobs created in the green business sector. Those companies performing environmentally the best will be rewarded and have the opportunity to create more jobs through their increased disposable income. Companies exceeding their environmental targets (pollution or other guideline relevant to the business in question) will be rewarded. If they exceed their targets by 10% or better, they are entitled to a reduction of one point in the corporate tax rate. if they exceed it by 20%, they will get a two-point tax break, and so on to a maximum of 5 percentage points lower tax. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 10
Current: 23
Proposed: 5.10
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:42:34, August 09, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | please read 5.10 as 5-10% variable rate depending on environmental performance. |
| Date | 01:44:03, August 09, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | Just cut the taxes. Tying it to some unmeasurable and unproven performance figure is unnecessary. You are promoting fraud this way. |
| Date | 04:33:02, August 09, 2005 CET | From | CNT/AFL | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | Can you not use the '-' or ':' characters? |
| Date | 05:23:31, August 09, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | no. only numbers and decimals. |
| Date | 05:47:21, August 09, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | propose it as 10.5 Otherwise ASP and TiC would be construed as voting against a tax cut here. The game will read it as 5.1%. |
| Date | 17:37:18, August 09, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | OOC: it IS a tax cut, it's just not available to everyone. But what I have done is post a request for a variable range to be allowed in that field, and I won't put this to a vote until I hear back. |
| Date | 17:43:49, August 09, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | It is not a tax cut, it is tied selling of an ideology and the ilklegal use of public funds to back a party. Thus we will oppose. |
| Date | 22:32:53, August 09, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | We agree with the Adam Smith Party on this issue, but as the game would read it as a tax cut anyway, we thank the Green Advantage. |
| Date | 14:13:30, August 10, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | ((I believe that the option to inttroduce a range into the field will not be implemented as it would make the economy too complex, and as such this will not be put to the vote. If it is put to the vote, if it will effectively be a tax cut, we will vote for it, but we oppose the principles in the bill description.)) |
| Date | 17:56:30, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | OOC: I guess I've heard back as much as I'm going to. It seems the game can't handle it, but there is at least one country that uses a range and puts an average in the number value field. Since even a selective tax cut is still a tax cut, moving this to a vote. |
| Date | 21:13:57, August 12, 2005 CET | From | Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | I VOTE NOOOOO |
| Date | 04:51:55, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | But you voted yes? |
| Date | 06:44:17, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | I am voting yes to the tax cut, no to the shifting. |
| Date | 17:22:02, August 13, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Corporate tax shifting |
| Message | since they are one and the same, we thank you for the support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 450 | ||||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: "Treaty-locking", or ratifiying treaties that completely or nearly completely forbid any proposals to change laws, is not allowed. Amongst other possible sanctions, Moderation reserves the discretion to delete treaties and/or subject parties to a seat reset if this is necessary in order to reverse a treaty-lock situation. |
| Random quote: "And what is Aleppo?" - Gary Johnson |