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Bill: Minor Luxury Goods Tax Increase
Details
Submitted by[?]: 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
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: October 2457
Description[?]:
The DSP believes that the luxury goods sales tax needs to be increased to match the minor changes in the economy. This will not only even things out, but will also help people, as figuring out what a quarter of something is tends to be easier for people to figure out than what 20% of it is. Therefore the DSP proposes that the luxury sales tax be increased from 20% to 25%. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 20
Current: 19
Proposed: 25
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 00:17:03, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Minor Luxury Goods Tax Increase |
Message | DSP has a weird definition of minor if 20% increase of a regressive tax is "minor". |
Date | 00:18:23, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Minor Luxury Goods Tax Increase |
Message | We dun lern gud up in Kanada, i think its 25% increase, not 20% sorry. |
Date | 00:25:03, September 18, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Minor Luxury Goods Tax Increase |
Message | A luxury good tax is not regressive, a tax on essential goods is regressive, high taxes on the poor than the rich is regressive, this is not regressive. An it's a 5% increase from 20% to 25%. It's meant to even out things from inflation and such. |
Date | 00:29:58, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Minor Luxury Goods Tax Increase |
Message | 5% increase from a start of 20% = 25% increase |
Date | 00:31:07, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Chattes en Chaleur | To | Debating the Minor Luxury Goods Tax Increase |
Message | And Im guessing the DSP thinks no middle or lower class families ever buy something that is a "luxury" outside of food and clothes? This is a regressive tax and you know it. |
Date | 02:43:24, September 18, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Minor Luxury Goods Tax Increase |
Message | Taxing luxury goods is not regressive period. Taxing huge amounts for them, maybe, only having a tax of a quarter of the price is hardly regressive. |
Date | 02:48:39, September 18, 2007 CET | From | Plato's Republican Party | To | Debating the Minor Luxury Goods Tax Increase |
Message | The fact is that the vast majority of luxury purchases, cost-wise, are made by the wealthy. Low-income families, with the many tax breaks and Government-subsidized utilities and necessities provided to them, are still in a position of affording all manner of luxury goods. Perhaps their toilets won't be plated with gold, but they will still have bum-warmers. Bum-warming toilet seats for all, the PRP say! |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | |||||
yes |
Total Seats: 430 | |||||
no |
Total Seats: 169 | |||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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