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Bill: Income tax proposal of December 2443
Details
Submitted by[?]: Coburan Reform Party
Status[?]: passed
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: August 2444
Description[?]:
| The Crazy Ruairi Party propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Republic of Cobura. |
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 |
| > 3,000 COB | 3% | 3,382,000,000 COB |
| > 5,000 COB | 8% | 19,169,000,000 COB |
| > 12,500 COB | 12% | 7,296,000,000 COB |
| > 20,000 COB | 24% | 3,112,000,000 COB |
| > 30,000 COB | 25% | 716,000,000 COB |
| > 35,000 COB | 27% | 224,000,000 COB | Total | 33,899,000,000 COB |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 20:17:48, August 18, 2007 CET | From |  Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | The richest need to pay their share |
| Date | 20:19:00, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Party for Individualism and Kitties | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | i was also already thinking about sth. like this |
| Date | 20:33:28, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | Wow! |
| Date | 20:35:07, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | Agree 100% |
| Date | 20:43:52, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | Huzzah! *sings* "Happy days are here again!!!" |
| Date | 20:44:15, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Reform Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | Tax and Spend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Date | 21:39:06, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Coburan Conservative Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | I think it's fair enough to bring it this high. But no higher. |
| Date | 23:46:41, August 18, 2007 CET | From | Federalist Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | I thought we all agreed that it was the Finance Ministers job to do as such? |
| Date | 00:20:14, August 19, 2007 CET | From | Party for Individualism and Kitties | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | no, i always said everyone is allowed. Hey it passed! |
| Date | 00:24:55, August 19, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | Strange |
| Date | 00:28:08, August 19, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Labour Party of Cobura | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2443 |
| Message | Minority government Fed atm, it makes the matter more complex |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 438 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 62 |
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