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Bill: Income tax proposal of May 2432
Details
Submitted by[?]: Ancient and Noble Order of the Cavaliers
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes to change income taxes. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: April 2433
Description[?]:
| The Cavalier Party propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Enlightened Realm of Zardugal. |
Proposals
Article 1
We propose to alter income tax brackets to the following setup. Information about the current income tax system can be found here.
| Bracket | Tax | Estimated Revenue |
| > 10,000 ZAR | 1% | 5,731,000,000 ZAR |
| > 20,000 ZAR | 2% | 10,018,000,000 ZAR |
| > 30,000 ZAR | 30% | 108,476,000,000 ZAR |
| > 40,000 ZAR | 45% | 111,703,000,000 ZAR |
| > 50,000 ZAR | 45% | 75,708,000,000 ZAR |
| > 60,000 ZAR | 50% | 59,784,000,000 ZAR |
| > 70,000 ZAR | 55% | 47,433,000,000 ZAR |
| > 80,000 ZAR | 57% | 39,392,000,000 ZAR |
| > 90,000 ZAR | 60% | 34,738,000,000 ZAR |
| > 100,000 ZAR | 75% | 114,530,000,000 ZAR |
| > 150,000 ZAR | 80% | 23,347,000,000 ZAR |
| > 190,000 ZAR | 85% | 2,272,000,000 ZAR | Total | 633,132,000,000 ZAR |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:16:47, July 22, 2007 CET | From | Ancient and Noble Order of the Cavaliers | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of May 2432 |
| Message | "Along with cuttin out unnecessary fat from the national budget, we should also take care to cut national income taxes!" -Hiram Lansing, Viscount Lingford, Minister of Finance |
| Date | 10:48:23, July 23, 2007 CET | From | Liberty Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of May 2432 |
| Message | The Liberty Party firmly believes in a flat income tax. Though we appreciate your efforts to cut taxes, this is an extreme version of so called "progressive" taxing that we will never support. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 95 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 306 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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