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Bill: Taxation Reform - Harmonisation of Sales Taxes
Details
Submitted by[?]: Social Liberal Party
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: July 2500
Description[?]:
| We see no reason for a completely arbitrary division of goods into "essential" and "luxury" categories. The system is prone to abuse and incompetence, and should be done away with. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 0
Proposed: 4
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 5
Current: 33
Proposed: 4
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:34:50, December 13, 2007 CET | From | Kirlawa Democratic Labour | To | Debating the Taxation Reform - Harmonisation of Sales Taxes |
| Message | We oppose, as food and clothing should not be taxed |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 313 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 246 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 158 |
| Random fact: Don't put "the" as the first word in your party name, because when parties are referred to in news reports, their names are preceded with "the", e.g. the [Socialist Party] has lost. |
| Random quote: "A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics." - Sam Himmell |