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Bill: Tax Proposal (Wartime)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Nrzi Prta (Democratic 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 not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: December 2474
Description[?]:
| The Equalise The People's Right Party propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the wartime situation of the Pontesian Dynastic Commonwealth. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 4
Current: 25
Proposed: 10
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 |
| > 20,000 PON | 10% | 81,694,000,000 PON |
| > 40,000 PON | 15% | 150,677,000,000 PON | Total | 232,371,000,000 PON |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 06:29:51, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Pontesi Nationalist Front | To | Debating the Tax Proposal (Wartime) |
| Message | We support this. |
| Date | 06:44:34, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Tax Proposal (Wartime) |
| Message | It is only responsilbe to pay for a war we are fighting while we are fighting it. We do not wish to pass this cost to future generations and do support this proposal |
| Date | 03:20:23, October 23, 2007 CET | From | One Nation Conservative Party | To | Debating the Tax Proposal (Wartime) |
| Message | We haven't worked towards the principle of cutting the number of tax brackets to one over our 300 year history to vote in favour of increasing the tax burden by a massive 9% so unfortunately, we will have to vote against our allies on this occassion. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 382 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 125 | ||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 118 |
| Random fact: Moderation will not implement nation renaming requests where the proposed name does not comply with the requirements set out in the Nation Renaming Guide: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6364 |
| Random quote: "I like to pay taxes. With them I buy civilization." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. |