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Bill: Lowering of Luxury Tax
Details
Submitted by[?]: GUBA 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: May 2555
Description[?]:
| Article 1 will lower the tax on Luxury Goods. I see no reason why luxury goods should be taxed at a higher rate than we do corporate profits. We are running a surplus, as is, and could do for an uptick in consumption that this would generate. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 15
Current: 15
Proposed: 10
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:01:58, April 01, 2008 CET | From | Poe Party | To | Debating the Lowering of Luxury Tax |
| Message | I would rather see us spend the surplus on goods and services, as well as R&D and enviromental issues. There are not many complaints from the people currently regarding the luxury tax, but if the need ever arises that we must raise it, there will surely be an uproar. |
| Date | 22:58:11, April 01, 2008 CET | From | Royal Socialist Party of Hulstria | To | Debating the Lowering of Luxury Tax |
| Message | OOC: It's probably partly because of game mechanics. Some ways of taxation are less useful than others, and Corporate Taxes are by far the worst way to tax game wise IC: We'll support anyways though, since lowering taxation is always great And in response to the PP: Since there is such a large surplus, we feel as though it is better to lower taxes. Spending is already fairly high, we do not need any other raises in the budget. And since there is such a large surplus, we mine as well lower taxation to give the people more money to spend on what they want |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 374 | |||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 126 | |||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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