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Bill: Religious Taxation Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Rutanian Democratic Forum
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: April 2625
Description[?]:
| "RDF believes that taxation of religious communities and their organizations is in reality a way of stopping them to fulfil their goals. Above all, we appreciate liberty, and religious liberty is one of them . Religious communities are not companies, and they should not be treated as such. Therefore we propose abolishment of religious taxation policy." Stephan Riemer, MNC Minister of Finance Executive vice president of RDF |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Current: All religious income, despite the use, is taxed.
Proposed: No religions are taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:54:05, August 21, 2008 CET | From | Federal Rutanian Libertarian Union | To | Debating the Religious Taxation Act |
| Message | I thought we repealed this act already - as the PCP has decided that it is too hard to discern what the profits are for a church or any sort of religion, we will support this change in the law. |
| Date | 02:15:07, August 21, 2008 CET | From | Rutanian Democratic Forum | To | Debating the Religious Taxation Act |
| Message | We already proposed this bill and it was rejected by the Congress, but we put the initiative once more for voting, because we believe that we convinced some members of Congress to vote for. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 282 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 271 | |||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 46 |
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| Random quote: "The strongest reason for people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." - Thomas Jefferson |