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Bill: Income tax proposal of May 2610
Details
Submitted by[?]: Liberal Democracy
Status[?]: defeated
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: July 2611
Description[?]:
| The Liberal Democracy propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Free Republic of Dorvik. |
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 |
| > 10,000 DDO | 3% | 14,477,000,000 DDO |
| > 20,000 DDO | 10% | 15,729,000,000 DDO |
| > 25,000 DDO | 15% | 15,508,000,000 DDO |
| > 30,000 DDO | 28% | 21,079,000,000 DDO |
| > 35,000 DDO | 35% | 18,175,000,000 DDO |
| > 40,000 DDO | 45% | 33,726,000,000 DDO |
| > 50,000 DDO | 60% | 48,880,000,000 DDO | Total | 167,574,000,000 DDO |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:31:15, July 23, 2008 CET | From | Liberal Democracy | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of May 2610 |
| Message | The Liberal Democracy propose a realignment of tax burden, to seek greater fairness for all citizens of Dorvik. |
| Date | 15:14:37, July 24, 2008 CET | From | Grüne Linkspartei | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of May 2610 |
| Message | While we would prefer that this tax cut was associated with a tax increase on the wealthy to balance the revenues, we will support this bill since we do have a surplus and because the principle of helping the lowest income bracket is an important one. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 179 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 92 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 228 |
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