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Bill: Religious Tax Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: United Blobs
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: December 2134
Description[?]:
| This bill means that religions can no longer generate profit tax free. Although donations will still be exempt, all profit will be taxed as if they were a company. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: No religions are taxed.
Current: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Proposed: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:26:54, October 31, 2005 CET | From |  Capitalizt Party | To | Debating the Religious Tax Act |
| Message | No. Keep religions out of the State dirty hands. |
| Date | 17:55:44, October 31, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Religious Tax Act |
| Message | Well put, CP. |
| Date | 18:51:51, October 31, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Religious Tax Act |
| Message | I'm all one for a bit of state intervention but taxing religion, i wouldn't vote yes for fear of getting my bum toasted in the afterlife. |
| Date | 19:04:40, October 31, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Religious Tax Act |
| Message | We agree with this. In this respect, why should any profits made by a religion be exempt from taxation? We don't exempt individuals or companies so we fail to see any difference. Charitable donations aren't taxed, so any good work can still go ahead. It merely brings the same rules for everybody. We would also point out that the State still has no intervention in the acts or operation of religions, merely treats them the same as any other operation. We support. |
| Date | 21:50:13, October 31, 2005 CET | From | National Imperial Hobrazian Front | To | Debating the Religious Tax Act |
| Message | It is silly to tax religions. Most of the profit of the religions is put back into the community, with the only exceptions being the clergy and any personnel involved with the church, whose incomes are taxable anyways. There is no need to tax the religion itself. |
| Date | 22:32:04, October 31, 2005 CET | From | Hobrazia First | To | Debating the Religious Tax Act |
| Message | We will support this, for the samr reasons as the WSS!P |
| Date | 01:12:00, November 01, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Religious Tax Act |
| Message | "Most of the profit of the religions is put back into the community," - Most of the profit could be put back into the community, not is. A large religious institution, in the eyes of the Party, is no different from any other business. They gain large incomes, pay their workers (in this instance the clergy) and use their profits in order to gain a larger share of the market (in this instance, which God is the true one). We see no reason that they be treated any different to any other operation, but as is pointed out above, any charitable donations will not be taxed and so this money can still be used altruistically. The State does not have any involvement in religion, nor should, and as such should not give it any advantages that no other groups recieve. |
| Date | 10:40:26, November 01, 2005 CET | From | Deltarian Nationalist Party | To | Debating the Religious Tax Act |
| Message | I think i'll actually vote yes. I remembered about tele-evangelists and the millions in profit they make (Pat Robinson etc....) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 231 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 169 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to ensure their "Bills under debate" section is kept in good order. Bills which are irrelevant or have become irrelevant should be deleted. Deletion can be requested for bills proposed by inactive parties on the Bill Clearout Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4363 |
| Random quote: "I don't believe you need to be bitch to succeed in business" - Lucinda Redwood, former Luthorian-Dorvish businesswoman |