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Bill: Amendment to the Income Tax Act (2474)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Beluzian Workers Party
Status[?]: defeated
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: September 2475
Description[?]:
| An Act to address the fiscal imbalance between taxes collected versus government expeditures. |
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 |
| > 100,000 BEL | 1% | 0 BEL | Total | 0 BEL |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:17:26, October 22, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Amendment to the Income Tax Act (2474) |
| Message | This would help to reduce the surplus, as well as leave more money in the pockets of Beluzians. |
| Date | 00:05:23, October 28, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Amendment to the Income Tax Act (2474) |
| Message | a good proposal, the People support a reduction this reduction, but demand an elimination of the income tax. |
| Date | 15:56:35, October 29, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Amendment to the Income Tax Act (2474) |
| Message | ooc: I've tried to delete the single bracket, but the system doesn't allow that. This way, since no one in the country earns that much, the income tax is effectively abolished. |
| Date | 16:50:53, October 29, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Amendment to the Income Tax Act (2474) |
| Message | ooc: had the same experience myself. IRL I utterly oppose income tax as being wrong headed, counter-productive, and not to mention unconstitutional (in the united states) |
| Date | 17:06:05, October 30, 2007 CET | From | Beluzian Workers Party | To | Debating the Amendment to the Income Tax Act (2474) |
| Message | ooc: It is telling that it required a constitutional amendment to impose income tax in the united states. it definately goes beyond the spirit of the original document. |
| Date | 17:58:20, October 31, 2007 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Amendment to the Income Tax Act (2474) |
| Message | ooc: as do most things we do these days... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 129 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 109 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 512 |
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