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Bill: The Elimination of Arbitrary Taxes Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Hutori Conservative Council
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: September 2579
Description[?]:
| It is time to repeal the arbitrary and completely unnecessary taxes levied by the preceeding communist regime. There was absolutely no need for a punishing sales tax of such an enourmous ammount when the communists proposed the 21% tax rate - we already had a rediculously large surplus, due to the communists many other punishing and unnecessary taxes - and there still isn't any merit for it. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 21
Current: 27
Proposed: 0
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 07:53:07, May 20, 2008 CET | From | Liberale Partij (L) | To | Debating the The Elimination of Arbitrary Taxes Bill |
| Message | This surplus would be better used to trim the income tax, rather than abolish sales tax altogether. |
| Date | 09:26:09, May 20, 2008 CET | From | Hutori Conservative Council | To | Debating the The Elimination of Arbitrary Taxes Bill |
| Message | Income taxes should be cut drastically as well, but we do not control the ministry of treasurer, and besides, the surplus was already unneseccarily large when the communists introduced the 21% tax rate - there was no need for it in the first place, and there still isn't. No party can possibly vote against this legislation if they have any common sense and fiscal responsibility whatsoever, and ANY commitment to the people of Hutori and their right to low taxation. This tax was not implimented for budget purposes - it was implimented out of communist spite for the wealthy, as they have shown on countless occassions. We will never tolerate such insolence. |
| Date | 12:42:42, May 20, 2008 CET | From | Liberale Partij (L) | To | Debating the The Elimination of Arbitrary Taxes Bill |
| Message | We'd not mind if the sales tax on luxury goods was lowered to be more in line with international levels. Eliminating it entirely, however, goes a little too far. The state would lose a useful source of revenue. Besides, it's fairer and in many ways more equitable to tax consumption than it is to tax labour. A liberal finance minister would propose to lower the sales tax; not to eliminate it entirely. To do so is short-term populism. International Comparison: http://80.237.164.51/particracy/main/viewvariable.php?variable=LUXURY_SALES_TAX |
| Date | 17:32:08, May 20, 2008 CET | From | Democratic Socialist Union | To | Debating the The Elimination of Arbitrary Taxes Bill |
| Message | Although we understand the desire to lower them, lowering them to 0% is absolutely outrageous. This money is needed for social progammes from which everyone draws benefit. |
| Date | 17:49:20, May 20, 2008 CET | From | Groene ArbeidersPartij | To | Debating the The Elimination of Arbitrary Taxes Bill |
| Message | We propose to bring it back to the old value of 5%. This seems a reasonable amount. |
| Date | 17:50:05, May 20, 2008 CET | From | Liberale Partij (L) | To | Debating the The Elimination of Arbitrary Taxes Bill |
| Message | Well, it seems this ridiculous proposal is going to pass. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 167 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 134 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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