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Bill: Taxation Bill 2440
Details
Submitted by[?]: Totalitarian Capitalist Party
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 2441
Description[?]:
| We must treat our nations corporations more justly and fairly, in order to encourage growth and prosperity. By making a short term sacrifice, we will encourage more companies to form, and help them grow faster. To offset this slightly, we propose that we raise the tax on luxury items, and start taxing religious organisations. It is unfair, that under current law, the income of religious groups is not taxed. If they make money, we should be allowed to tax it, like we do for everyone else. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 20
Current: 25
Proposed: 15
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 10
Current: 5
Proposed: 12
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: No religions are taxed.
Current: All religious income, despite the use, is taxed.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:29:43, August 06, 2007 CET | From |  Democratic Centrist Party | To | Debating the Taxation Bill 2440 |
| Message | The DCP supports this bill. |
| Date | 20:07:53, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Nasal Equality Organization | To | Debating the Taxation Bill 2440 |
| Message | We at the N.E.O. are concerned whether or not the money brought in by the taxation of religion will be enough to offset the 5% cut across the board of corporate taxes, given that the people of this nation lean more towards the secular, as opposed to the religious, but we will ratify this bill nonetheless. |
| Date | 21:35:16, August 06, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Centrist Party | To | Debating the Taxation Bill 2440 |
| Message | It is highly likely that the tax cut for corporations will lead more companies to settle in our state. This means the tax income per company will be lower, but it will be higher in the end because the number of companies will grow. |
| Date | 00:34:23, August 07, 2007 CET | From | Totalitarian Capitalist Party | To | Debating the Taxation Bill 2440 |
| Message | Indeed, while it may be a sacrifice in the short term, in the long term more businesses will spring up, and due to less financial pressure from taxes, they will grow faster too. |
| Date | 08:54:48, August 07, 2007 CET | From | New Age Retro Hippies | To | Debating the Taxation Bill 2440 |
| Message | This only hurts the poor and impoverished who are helped by religious charities, while simultaneously taking the burden off the powerful corporations. We cannot support this bill in any form. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 31 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 29 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 40 |
| Random fact: If there are no parties in your nation with seats, feel free to visit the forum and request an early election on the Early Election Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4362 |
| Random quote: "The main problem of the left is that it has been traditionally divided and unable to reach agreements between different leftist views, whilst the right has almost always moved in the same direction by giving concessions to different rightist points of view." - Aelius Celer, former Selucian politician |