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Bill: Tax Adjustment
Details
Submitted by[?]: Partisans And Artisans League
Status[?]: defeated
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: November 2121
Description[?]:
We believe that one good can be a luxury to one person and not to another, that tax rates should be a flat rate. I mean since when have fancy chocolates been anything but a luxury? And yet they are still not taxed. We need to cut the vagueness and stabilise the economy. In some parts of the country tazor-batons are a necessity and yet they are charged as luxury goods. This is completely unfair on illegal drug farmers, hillbilles and beerfest hostesses. Free the Beluzians who don't give a dead monkeys pancreas, what the government thinks! |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 0
Proposed: 5
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 18
Current: 10
Proposed: 5
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
Date | 20:58:11, September 14, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | Protectors of the people, faithful servants and communists - your thoughts? |
Date | 23:06:09, September 14, 2005 CET | From | Official Dragon Bacon-Eaters' Party | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | What the hell? That's not enough tax for the Beluzia to live off of. |
Date | 23:15:15, September 14, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | Yes it is, if you make government small. America fought the civil war on stamp duty and tea tax alone. We can do it if we put our minds to it. |
Date | 23:43:17, September 14, 2005 CET | From | Neo-Marxist revolutionary Party | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | It'll leave us running a budget deficit, last I checked we actually had more money coming in than going out, by lowering the tax barriers however it will reverse this trend. |
Date | 02:48:54, September 15, 2005 CET | From | Conservative Party | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | Why can you not simply leave taxation and spending up to the Minister? Honestly people, consult me before making up random numbers. |
Date | 18:33:51, September 15, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | Because ypou never mention it. Honestly minister, do your job. :-0 |
Date | 18:34:30, September 15, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | Right I will increase it slightly if that would make some of you happy. 7%? |
Date | 20:14:57, September 16, 2005 CET | From | Militant Socialist Party | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | Don't be ridiculous! There's a reason that essential goods are untaxed- so that anybody can afford them! How are the unemployed or low-waged single parents supposed to afford food or clothes with such a raise in taxes! The rich can afford to pay 18% on luxury goods, the poor cannot afford to pay 5% on necessities. If this is passed then children will go unfed. This is what you support? If you wish to lower taxes on luxury items, make up for this by raising corporate tax. Don't tax the already over-taxed citizens! |
Date | 20:42:54, September 16, 2005 CET | From | Militant Socialist Party | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | I did some quick sums, to demonstrate how ridiculous these tax changes are: If taxes on Luxury charges were lowered to 5%, then we would lose 19,653,662,793 BEL in taxes. In order to recover from this, we would need to raise Corporation tax to 85%!!! I personally wouldn't mind that, but I'm sure you right-wingers would have plenty to moan about in that situation. Next time do your sums before attempting to ruin this country. |
Date | 10:58:40, September 17, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | 0% is "overtaxed"! Anyway theres nothing wrong with a LITTLE tax but why does it suddenly jump in te present system to 18% on a whim of what some Beluzian Government penpusher thinks is a luxury. These two taxes would balance each other out so that the budget is unlikely to suffer. |
Date | 11:00:35, September 18, 2005 CET | From | Militant Socialist Party | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | I doubt a rise of 5% on necessities would cover a drop of 13% on luxuries. |
Date | 23:10:19, September 18, 2005 CET | From | Partisans And Artisans League | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | Food is a HUGE sector and this and other things, would cover it. |
Date | 23:50:14, October 04, 2005 CET | From | People's Populist Party - Zogist Mafia | To | Debating the Tax Adjustment |
Message | I broke my table pounding it in support of your argument until I read the bottom line... Equal taxes for Necessities AND luxuries?!? |
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Voting
Vote | Seats | ||||||
yes | Total Seats: 116 | ||||||
no |
Total Seats: 284 | ||||||
abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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