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Bill: Luxury sales tax
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Party for Equality
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: January 2108
Description[?]:
People who can afford to buy luxury items can afford a small tax to help those who cannot buy even the most simple necessities.
luxury items, for the purposes of this bill, are defined as tobacco, alcohol and property costing upwards of $400 000 |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:31:47, September 04, 2005 CET |
From | Conservative Liberal Party | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | This case has been argued before. Mobile phones, digital television, the internet etc, air travel, were all considered luxuries, but are now available to the masses. A luxury tax may simply prevent Likatonian citizens from purchasing goods that would otherwise be widely available. |
| Date | 17:47:42, September 04, 2005 CET |
From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | It isnt a very high tax, and items considered luxury can be reviewed periodically. Some of the main commodities I was thinking of here was tobacco and alcohol, as there is no seperate option to tax them.
Would this bill have more support if I added a clause at the top defining luxury items as only cigarettes, alcohol and property over a certain price? |
| Date | 18:11:42, September 04, 2005 CET |
From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | Response to the debate: NON-Luxury items would be basic food, and basic clothing, and heating fuel. Would every OTHER product not, legitimately, count as a luxury? Does anyone NEED television? Does anyone NEED air travel? |
| Date | 19:33:19, September 04, 2005 CET |
From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | So you would support the bill as it stands, without the suggested ammendment? I want to gauge which version will have the most support so that it has the highest likelihood of passing. |
| Date | 22:13:42, September 04, 2005 CET |
From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | If there is to be a tax, the AAP would prefer that it be minimal (15%) rather than the rather extreme earlier suggestions. |
| Date | 23:45:09, September 04, 2005 CET |
From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | AAP: we are discussing something totally different from company profit tax, which was where the extreme suggestions were coming in, and what CPL was also getting confused with. This is Luxury goods tax, and the debate is over what constitutes luxury goods. |
| Date | 05:07:49, September 05, 2005 CET |
From | Commonwealth Workers Army | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | Response to LPE: Seen it. The AAP withdraws it's earlier objection... but maintains it's earlier question of how do you decide which goods are 'luxury'? As far as the AAP can ascertain, some food, some clothing... maybe baby supplies, maybe heating oil.... everything else is luxury, no? |
| Date | 11:39:28, September 05, 2005 CET |
From | Liberal Party for Equality | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | Well, I will amend this bill as earlier suggested and then we can have a further debate if other parties wish to extend the definintion of 'luxury' |
| Date | 19:17:28, September 06, 2005 CET |
From | Friendly Communist's of Likatonia | To | Debating the Luxury sales tax | | Message | i personally dont think it is high enough as if people dont need it then it then they shouldn't have it. but i think media such as tv and radio are non luxuray as they are good for getting infomation out to people. |
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Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 160 |
| no | Total Seats: 0 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 55 |
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