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Bill: Religion and Tax
Details
Submitted by[?]: Noordelijk Bevrijding Front
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2031
Description[?]:
| All churches and places of Worship should have to pay equal tax as be acoountable to the state for their finances. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
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From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the Religion and Tax | | Message | Many buildings of private schools and universities, for example, are exempt from property taxes. Donations to charities like the Red Cross are tax deductible. Organizations which engage in medical or scientific research can take advantage of favorable tax laws. Environmental groups can raise tax-free funds by selling books. This is fair enough.
Churches, however, tend to benefit the most from the various tax exemptions available, in particular because they qualify for many of them automatically, whereas non-religious groups have to go through a more complicated application and approval process. Non-religious groups also have to be more accountable for where their money goes, while churches, in order to avoid possibly excessive entanglements between church and state, do not have to submit financial disclosure statements.
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From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Religion and Tax | | Message | Churches should pay equal tax? Equal to what? The other charities you mentioned? And you say churches should be accountable to the state, I thought you were secularist? |
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From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Religion and Tax | | Message | Churches are non-profit and donation funded and thats the economic definition of a charity. What about the churches positive benefits to the community? |
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From | Noordelijk Bevrijding Front | To | Debating the Religion and Tax | | Message | This is a typical bill from the Green Rhetoric Party - a lot of wishy washy words that mean nothing?- It means money and adressing the inequalities in society. |
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From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Religion and Tax | | Message | More proof you are an ideologue and know very little of how economics works. To be honest, I'm bored of going back and forth when you dont acknowledge (or understand probably) most of my points. |
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From | Dorvish Popular Front | To | Debating the Religion and Tax | | Message | Thats what this bill is about? Then why did you say to me it was about stopping Churches paying the same tax as a charity? haha, im proud I bet you in the debate and made you change your mind lol. |
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From | | To | Debating the Religion and Tax | | Message | So a minority recognised religion should pay as much as a majority religion? |
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Seats |
| yes | Total Seats: 21 |
| no | Total Seats: 45 |
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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