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Bill: Income tax proposal of November 2113
Details
Submitted by[?]: Mouvement des Conservateurs
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill proposes to change income taxes. It requires more than half of the legislature to vote yes. This bill will pass as soon as the required yes votes are in, or will be defeated if unsufficient votes are reached on the deadline.
Voting deadline: November 2115
Description[?]:
| The Liberal Democrats propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Kingdom of Rildanor. As we have a major surplus, it would be good to rearrange the taxation system. As this element is new and still under development, I decided not to change the brackets but ony the tax percentage. It drops 1 to 3% at the lowest numbers and 0 to 1% at the highest, which simply means: higher incomes pay more tax! And as you may have noticed, the minimum income will not be taxated anymore. My party isn't a supporter of taxation on persons monthly income so this will not be the last taxation change, I prefer doing this on a long basis so that the economy can adapt. Notice that this is still a proposal, the new income tax system has to be ratified by the a National Forum majority approval. As this is not a regular bill proposal type, I was hoping on a constructive debate with the members of the National Forum so that we can reach a consensus by the end of 2116. |
Proposals
Article 1
We propose to alter income tax brackets to the following setup. Information about the current income tax system can be found here.
| Bracket | Tax | Estimated Revenue |
| > 619 RCR | 9% | 4,861,000,000 RCR |
| > 1,547 RCR | 14% | 12,606,000,000 RCR |
| > 3,094 RCR | 18% | 30,868,000,000 RCR |
| > 6,188 RCR | 23% | 48,060,000,000 RCR |
| > 12,375 RCR | 28% | 54,123,000,000 RCR | Total | 150,518,000,000 RCR |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 21:14:17, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Democracy Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | Colleagues, The Justice Party is in support of this bill for the sake of exacting higher amounts of revenue here in the Kingdom of Rildanor, for the better use of the people, and as these will be temporary, our support stays. |
| Date | 21:52:55, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Beach Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | How about a straight drop of 5% 0, 5, 10, 15, 20, 25. |
| Date | 22:00:52, September 20, 2005 CET | From |  Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | ooc: You and your round numbers!! ;-) ic: Percentages that end on 0 or 5 don't result into round bracket values so I don't really see the benefit in that, especially not when the tax percentage still needs to be changed after this new system is fully adapted and gets a good response from the index, budget, etc. regards. |
| Date | 22:54:48, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Beach Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | Brain hurt. My system isn't really changing the %, its moving the income levels. |
| Date | 23:17:31, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | It would like to bring the brackets closer to eachother to because: example monthly gross income of 1500 RCR x 9% = 135 RCR >>> 1365 RCR nett income monthly gross income of 1548 RCR x 14% = 217 RCR >>> 1331 RCR nett income earning only 48 RCR less will result into a higher nett income, which is kinda unlogical to me what are your opinions? |
| Date | 23:34:52, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Democracy Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | I would say we should keep what we've got. This will be temporary though? As a side note, I understand the Justice Party has no votes right now because we have no seats in the Forum as of *yet*, but either way, we would like to lobby and give our input on the issues concerning the Kingdom. |
| Date | 23:55:39, September 20, 2005 CET | From | Mouvement des Conservateurs | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | In a debate, the amount of seats a party has, doesn't matter. I'm very much interested in every party's input, when it is wel argumentated of course. |
| Date | 00:50:33, September 21, 2005 CET | From | Libertarian Socialist Party (RDL) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | Interesting proposal, the tax cuts for the lowest paid are obviously to be welcomed, we will have to think about this one |
| Date | 02:25:48, September 21, 2005 CET | From | Parti Monarchiste Catholique | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | Colleagues, We support this legislation and thank the Liberal Democrats for giving the people tax break. |
| Date | 16:55:56, September 21, 2005 CET | From | Progressive Democracy Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of November 2113 |
| Message | Colleagues, I feel that each party had made up it's mind about this, and a vote is definitely called for. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 119 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 81 |
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