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Bill: Income tax proposal of February 2453
Details
Submitted by[?]: Chattes en Chaleur
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: January 2454
Description[?]:
| The Chattes en Chaleur propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Federated Cities of Pan-Sekowo. |
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 |
| > 1,000 SEK | 1% | 228,000,000 SEK |
| > 2,000 SEK | 1% | 683,000,000 SEK |
| > 5,000 SEK | 1% | 1,138,000,000 SEK |
| > 10,000 SEK | 45% | 70,605,000,000 SEK |
| > 20,000 SEK | 60% | 59,289,000,000 SEK |
| > 30,000 SEK | 70% | 46,770,000,000 SEK |
| > 40,000 SEK | 77% | 60,171,000,000 SEK | Total | 238,884,000,000 SEK |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:31:00, September 09, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | The DSP can not support this plan. Firstly, those making less than 5,000 SEK should'nt be taxed, since they make very little as it is. Secondly the middle-class is taxed far to much Thirdly the ultra rich should be taxed more than 77%. |
| Date | 02:45:38, September 10, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | PRP are in agreement with our esteemed colleagues in the DSP. Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. All brackets should be properly taxed relative to each other in order to facilitate no person having too much or too little. |
| Date | 03:01:36, September 10, 2007 CET | From |  Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | CeC is willing to consider specific proposals for tax rates. http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/budget.php?nationid=55 to see the current tax rates. |
| Date | 03:07:45, September 10, 2007 CET | From | Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | And I will point out I am trying my best to facilitate maintaining our level of services, while incorporating some sort of taxcut that the CFP would like. |
| Date | 03:32:17, September 10, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | The DSP proposes the following; 0 - 5,000 -- 0% 5,000 - 20,000 -- 10% 20,000 - 50,000 -- 30% 50,000 - 100,000 --40% 100,000 - 1Million -- 50% 1 Million - 3 Million -- 60% 3Million-10million-- 80% Over 10million -- 90% |
| Date | 03:50:03, September 10, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | Plato's Republicans will agree with a scale such as that proposed by the DSP. |
| Date | 04:26:35, September 10, 2007 CET | From | Sekowan Communist Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | The SCP agrees with the spirit of the DSP's proposal, but the number of earners at those levels is rather small, in all likelihood(and minimum tax is 1%, just so you guys know). The current tax brackets are quite acceptable, and we oppose any change. |
| Date | 09:08:00, September 10, 2007 CET | From | Saiken Renmei | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | We shall support this tax proposal, as we do not see 1% too high a tax for those living with less than 5,000 SEK, and more than 77% would be too much for those earning over 40,000 SEK. Paying direct taxes, even if of symbolic value, makes citizens responsible and involved. "The payment of taxes gives a right to protection." - James M. Wayne We would suport lower taxes on the middle class, though. |
| Date | 10:22:43, September 10, 2007 CET | From | Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | Ok so after playing with the numbers I can assure you no one makes more than 80k a year in our fine country and that if you want to moderately increase some spending in our budget, we can not lower taxes anymore. I'm going to put this to a vote along with a slightly modified budget. I would urge my fellow friends on the left to vote yes and remind them that the CFP is being very reasonable. Not passing this budget and income tax structure could ultimately lead to drastic cuts in services that we have seen the CFP propose before. |
| Date | 17:30:47, September 10, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | We will begrudgingly vote for this even though we still take issue with it. |
| Date | 19:22:44, September 10, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | After reconsidering it, we can not vote in favour of this. |
| Date | 20:32:50, September 10, 2007 CET | From | Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | CeC is really confused by the actions of the DSP. Do you really believe it is more fair to have a system where: > 20,000 SEK 95% > 30,000 SEK 99% CeC is not saying this is a perfect bill, but it allows us to increase funding in key services while maintaining it in others. This is currently the best chance to provide tax relief while not having to cut services. CeC politely and humbly asks the DSP to change it's vote and for the Commies to vote yes as well. |
| Date | 23:56:16, September 10, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | We do not think that it is fair to the middle and lower classes. OOC: What's the highest amount it lest you go upt ot? |
| Date | 00:14:34, September 11, 2007 CET | From | Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=taxesvs4.jpg taxes can range from 1-99% |
| Date | 01:01:23, September 11, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2453 |
| Message | After reconsidering a second time, we will vote yes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 312 | ||||
| no | Total Seats: 167 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 120 |
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