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Bill: Income tax proposal of February 2822
Details
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: October 2822
Description[?]:
| The Christian Meritocrats propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Saridani Union. |
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 |
| > 20,000 SAD | 25% | 114,083,000,000 SAD |
| > 40,000 SAD | 30% | 33,383,000,000 SAD |
| > 50,000 SAD | 40% | 35,957,000,000 SAD |
| > 80,000 SAD | 50% | 1,959,000,000 SAD | Total | 185,382,000,000 SAD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 19:44:20, September 23, 2009 CET | From |  Party One | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2822 |
| Message | The current budget demands too much. The people want lower taxes. While we have stepped up the 2000-40000 bracket, the rest are lowered, and cases lower than 20,000, competely eliminated. |
| Date | 19:48:14, September 23, 2009 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2822 |
| Message | this is just a way to manipulate us to lower the budget to what you desire after you lower the income tax. AFter that comes foreign affairs, then our defense, then our health, then our education. |
| Date | 19:49:06, September 23, 2009 CET | From | Saridani Progressive Alliance | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2822 |
| Message | The current income tax bill spreads the weight fairly, with miniscule taxes for all who are in work. We can't support such a high tax bracket so low down, especially since this results in a 9% hike for middling income families. We also feel upper three brackets are set too low on the tax threshold. So a no all over from me. Everyone pays tax, that makes it fair, even the poor can make a contribution to society in return for the services provided them by the Government. Fair and equitable this bill is not. |
| Date | 20:01:14, September 23, 2009 CET | From | Party One | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2822 |
| Message | They have to be set so low because no one in this nation earns over 80,000SAD. It's pathetic. We are a nation forced under a glass ceiling of tax oppression. |
| Date | 20:01:37, September 23, 2009 CET | From | Party One | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2822 |
| Message | (correction, no one earns over 90,000 |
| Date | 20:04:55, September 23, 2009 CET | From | Saridani Progressive Alliance | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of February 2822 |
| Message | Exactly why the poor need to pay some tax. Without really high earners they have to chip in their bit. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 321 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 413 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 16 |
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