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Bill: Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496
Details
Submitted by[?]: 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō)
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: February 2497
Description[?]:
| Do to the current economic/spending crisis Sekowo is currently in, I am using my Executive authority as Head of State to try to end the situation as quickly as possible by proposing this taxation bill. Having to tax those with so low income the amount proposed does not sit well with my conscious, but it, along with the spending bill was the only way that the desired result was obtainable. I of course intend this only as in interim bill, to simply keep the country from going into further debt. The 22 million in excess will act as small payment methods to pay off the several hundred billion we are in debt as it is. Tenno, Komei |
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 |
| > 6,000 SEK | 15% | 3,413,000,000 SEK |
| > 7,000 SEK | 20% | 4,551,000,000 SEK |
| > 8,000 SEK | 30% | 13,653,000,000 SEK |
| > 10,000 SEK | 45% | 70,546,000,000 SEK |
| > 20,000 SEK | 45% | 23,872,000,000 SEK |
| > 25,000 SEK | 50% | 22,795,000,000 SEK |
| > 30,000 SEK | 55% | 36,689,000,000 SEK |
| > 40,000 SEK | 60% | 44,164,000,000 SEK |
| > 70,000 SEK | 93% | 4,134,000,000 SEK | Total | 223,817,000,000 SEK |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:03:37, December 05, 2007 CET | From |  Independence Coalition | To | Debating the Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496 |
| Message | This bill is entirely unacceptable, it does nothing but tax every body of society into near poverty. |
| Date | 21:22:31, December 05, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496 |
| Message | It is the only real way that we can make the amount of money needed currently without taxing the poorest segment of our society. Further more we do not intend this be permanent, just an interim system until we can make further adjustments to spending and find a better way to get the money without taxing large sums of money from everywhere. Otaru Komei |
| Date | 23:03:47, December 05, 2007 CET | From | Revolutionary State Socialist Party | To | Debating the Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496 |
| Message | I don't see how this taxes anyone to death... |
| Date | 01:23:43, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496 |
| Message | We have severe problems with this increased taxation. However, we fully support keeping a balanced budget. We would prefer reducing government services to increased taxation. |
| Date | 01:30:34, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496 |
| Message | We ultimately cannot condone tax increases this steep. We might be persuaded to vote in favour of mild increases to support a balanced budget, but this goes overboard. |
| Date | 01:50:03, December 06, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496 |
| Message | A government spending bill with an 80 billion SEK reduction. As Ive said over and over again, this is an interim plan, until we can all agree on better tax and spending plans. |
| Date | 01:58:47, December 06, 2007 CET | From | Normand Pluralist Party | To | Debating the Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496 |
| Message | Too frequently interim plans get made permanent. Why don't we start on better tax and spending plans now? |
| Date | 02:16:15, December 06, 2007 CET | From | 帝国公明党 (Teikoku Kōmeitō) | To | Debating the Emergency Executive Authority: Income Tax Bill of 2496 |
| Message | Oops, that should have read; "A government spending bill with over 80 billion SEK in reductions just passed mere [RL] hours ago." |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 266 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 236 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 248 |
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