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Bill: Income tax proposal of January 2451
Details
Submitted by[?]: Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill proposes to change income taxes. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: September 2451
Description[?]:
| The Democratic Rationalists propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Democratic Republic of Aloria. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 10
Current: 25
Proposed: 9
Article 2
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 |
| > 12,000 ALO | 2% | 347,000,000 ALO |
| > 14,000 ALO | 3% | 462,000,000 ALO |
| > 16,000 ALO | 5% | 625,000,000 ALO |
| > 18,000 ALO | 7% | 548,000,000 ALO |
| > 20,000 ALO | 9% | 237,000,000 ALO |
| > 21,000 ALO | 11% | 218,000,000 ALO |
| > 22,000 ALO | 12% | 143,000,000 ALO |
| > 23,000 ALO | 13% | 97,000,000 ALO |
| > 24,000 ALO | 14% | 83,000,000 ALO |
| > 25,000 ALO | 15% | 292,000,000 ALO | Total | 3,052,000,000 ALO |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:21:31, September 05, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of January 2451 |
| Message | This bill *eliminates* income taxes on income up to 12000 ALOs, and cuts the luxury tax by %1. Most Alorians get a tax cut under this bill. The highest earning Alorians are being asked to give more of their income, but because they have more disposable income, they will enjoy most of the benefits of the luxury tax cuts. |
| Date | 02:36:14, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Industrialist Party of Aloria | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of January 2451 |
| Message | Again, we oppose. Cut taxes for everyone while still keeping your socialistic tendencies and we might support it more. |
| Date | 04:16:55, September 06, 2007 CET | From |  Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of January 2451 |
| Message | This is out of control taxation of the people! |
| Date | 08:55:39, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Social Liberalism Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of January 2451 |
| Message | This tax proposal is not only unnecessary, it is unwieldy and unfair to put the Alorian people through the turmoil of another tax system overhaul. |
| Date | 10:34:10, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Alorian Free Democrats | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of January 2451 |
| Message | Cut taxes for everyone? Down from a flat 1% you mean? While this may look like a shocking proposal on first sight, it actually makes a lot of sense and relieves those on a lower income. To claim that it is outrageous goverment taxation every time someone tries to update our jurassic tax system is reactionary and self serving. We believe however that these currently proposed brackets and differences in percentages are unbalanced. |
| Date | 16:00:37, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Rationalists (PrCoa) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of January 2451 |
| Message | There haven't been any recent tax system overhauls, CLP. There was a tax cut on incomes up to 5000 ALOs about 5 years ago. But no "overhaul." This reform itself is a modest proposal to phase in a graduated income tax system. I actually agree with AFP's critique though. I didn't put enough time into thinking through these tax brackets. Should have been simpler, maybe increasing by a % for each 1000 ALOs. |
| Date | 23:25:28, September 06, 2007 CET | From | Moderate Libertarian Party (NoCoalition) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of January 2451 |
| Message | We don't need any changes to the system. For nearly two decades we've held the 1% flat tax steady while maintaining a) the budget with a surplus, b) basic social programs including education and healthcare, and c) unemployment rates below 4%. This tax increase is selling our citizens a bill of terrible goods they hardly need or want!!! |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 289 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 311 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 0 |
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