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Bill: LP - Sales Tax Reform
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party of Malivia
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: June 2437
Description[?]:
| The rationale is as follows: The Liberal Party wishes to shift taxation to indirect forms of taxation in order to lower income taxes in the near future, particularly for lower income families. The Sales tax on essential goods should therefore be established at 11% on an equal standing as luxury goods. Meanwhile lowering the sales tax on luxury goods will increase the accessibility of these items to lower income families. Indeed the only consequence of a high luxury goods tax is the exact opposite of what was intended, since it basically forbids lower income families from purchasing them. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 0
Proposed: 11
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 15
Current: 25
Proposed: 11
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:09:09, July 31, 2007 CET | From | Radical Labor Confederation | To | Debating the LP - Sales Tax Reform |
| Message | OOC: Why 11? Anyway...too bad there's no progressive tax option. |
| Date | 01:13:06, July 31, 2007 CET | From | Liberal Party of Malivia | To | Debating the LP - Sales Tax Reform |
| Message | The whole idea is bring more fairness into the Malivian taxation policy: shifting the tax burden away from direct labour to indirect consumption. The establishment of an 11% sales tax will allow for this shift via tax cuts for lower income families. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 327 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 123 |
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