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Bill: Essential goods taxation
Details
Submitted by[?]: Konservativa Respublikano Parti
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: May 2688
Description[?]:
| "At this moment in time, the government is receiving in taxation 20% more taxation than it needs to provide public services. The majority of this sum is raised by the flat tax rate of 5% on essential items such as food and water. To me at least, this seems somewhat unfair to those on the margins of society. If I was the finance minister I would rebalance the budget to ensure a fairer balance of taxation and expenditure. For now, however, I am only capable of changing luxury goods tax, essential goods tax and the tax on the profit made by corporations. Which leads me to introduce this proposal. I propose that we slash the current essential goods tax rate to 1% from its current 5% rate. This will save country's taxpayers a collective total of 150,323,146,797.60 ZAR per annum and ensure that the nation still takes in a small surplus amount of taxation." Marcus Lampart, Axe and Hammer Shadow Finance minister |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 5
Current: 5
Proposed: 1
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 02:48:36, December 26, 2008 CET | From | League of Christian Socialists | To | Debating the Essential goods taxation |
| Message | We hope essential goods tax can eventually be abolished altogether because it is the most unfair of all taxes, placing a disproportionate burden upon the poorest. Leonard Brownlow (Lord Protector of Zardugal and Secretary of the League of Christian Socialists) |
| Date | 03:04:39, December 26, 2008 CET | From | Konservativa Respublikano Parti | To | Debating the Essential goods taxation |
| Message | "As does the current system of levying a 1% tax on every hard-earned ZAR a person may make." Marcus Lampart, Axe and Hammer Shadow Finance Minsiter |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 527 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 73 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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