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Bill: Income tax proposal of March 2496
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Democratic 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: November 2496
Description[?]:
| The Democratic Socialist Party propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Darnussian Republic. |
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 |
| > 18,000 DAR | 2% | 3,922,000,000 DAR |
| > 22,000 DAR | 4% | 13,439,000,000 DAR |
| > 30,000 DAR | 6% | 18,804,000,000 DAR |
| > 40,000 DAR | 8% | 15,914,000,000 DAR |
| > 50,000 DAR | 9% | 11,889,000,000 DAR |
| > 60,000 DAR | 10% | 25,129,000,000 DAR | Total | 89,097,000,000 DAR |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:14:58, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of March 2496 |
| Message | No idea if you guys knew this, but if you looked at the individual economic situations of each state, you'll find that 15000 is the lowest economic bracket. |
| Date | 09:28:53, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Neoliberal Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of March 2496 |
| Message | Progresive tax.. no. |
| Date | 16:19:11, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Jewish-Christian Alliance of Patriots | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of March 2496 |
| Message | No to a progressive tax. I hate taxing incomes. Sales taxes are better. |
| Date | 17:06:03, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Democratic Darnussia | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of March 2496 |
| Message | Why punish the successful? |
| Date | 21:59:49, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Deists of Darnussia | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of March 2496 |
| Message | We agree with the DD |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 58 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 129 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 113 |
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