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Bill: An Act against religious Taxation (RSA)
Details
Submitted by[?]: Imperial Democratic Coalition
Status[?]: defeated
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: January 2680
Description[?]:
| Recognised religions are foremost community-based organisations which necessarily contribute to the welfare of the people, or else they would have little support. By taxing these bodies, which already provide public services, we are doing an injustice to the charitable sector. Thus, we would ask all recognised religious bodies by exempt from taxation. This does not include fringe-groups and cults, obviously. |
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: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:21:08, December 11, 2008 CET | From | Free Radical Party | To | Debating the An Act against religious Taxation (RSA) |
| Message | So what you are saying is you support preachers riding around in expensive cars, and living in mansions. |
| Date | 00:55:03, December 12, 2008 CET | From | Imperial Democratic Coalition | To | Debating the An Act against religious Taxation (RSA) |
| Message | Nope; any religions that do that sort of stuff wouldn't be -recognised- religions under government policy, and so wouldn't get an exemption. |
| Date | 23:42:47, December 12, 2008 CET | From | Selucian Home and Hearth | To | Debating the An Act against religious Taxation (RSA) |
| Message | What about property taxes on assets acquired with charitable donations? For example, parishioners raise money to buy land in a city and build a church. The church focuses on inner-city charity work. But in thirty years the land becomes much more valuable, and the church, now populated mostly with low-income parishioners, cannot afford to pay property taxes and continue carrying on its ministry at the same time. If asset appreciation counts as profit, we would support this bill. But we're not sure it does. Furthermore, we are against the principle of recognizing some religions but not others, so we do not support this bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 131 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 619 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The Real-Life Equivalents Index is a valuable resource for finding out the in-game equivalents of real-life cultures, languages, religions, people and places: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=6731 |
| Random quote: "Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves." - Confucius |