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Bill: Working Persons Tax Credit
Details
Submitted by[?]: Solentian Socialist Party
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: October 2148
Description[?]:
| The Working Persons Tax Credit will shift the balance of taxation from individual consumers to corporations. Our Party wishes to present a moderate and affordable programme, which will benefit the great majority of the population without damaging our national economy. Whether countries pursue flat or progressive systems of taxation, it is generally ignored that the levying of tax from individual citizens is horribly inefficient, causing general misery and hardship. The choice between world-class public services and alleviating the burden of taxation need not be so difficult as it is often presented. But we do need to make tough choices. Sales taxes, while appropriate, are often used by governments to shore up their anti-inflationary policies, hitting middle-income citizens and hampering the consumer market. In the case of essential goods and services, sales taxes are nothing less than robbery, targeting the most vulnerable in society and keeping them in poverty, which itself is bad for the Solentian economy. By pursuing appropriate and fair tax policies which focus on business profits, we will relieve the burden on middle-class Solentians, increasing consumer purchasing, while ensuring the difference isn't shifted to poor and working-class people. However, we are not proposing penal tax rates, counter-productive to job and wealth creation. Nor do we believe increased public spending is the answer to all social problems. This is a prudent approach to investment, creating incentives in increased purchasing power, while ensuring large corporations pay their fair share, for the benefit of the many, not the few. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Tax percentage of the profit made by corporations.
Old value:: 15
Current: 0
Proposed: 25
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 8
Current: 0
Proposed: 0
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:49:51, November 28, 2005 CET | From | Communist Fascist And Anarchial Party | To | Debating the Working Persons Tax Credit |
| Message | definitely agree with article 1 and 2.... am really against article 3, but a debate would be good. |
| Date | 15:34:19, November 28, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Working Persons Tax Credit |
| Message | Our Party wouldn't oppose the removal of Article 3, actually. We realise sales taxes on luxury goods are quite necessary - however, we reduced the level of taxation by two points as part of a broader move away from individual taxation. That said, our main priority is the abolition of tax on essential goods, in favour of profit taxes, so we will agree to your proposals if there are no third party objections. Nevertheless, let us state that the SSP doesn't believe that luxury taxes should be in any way punitive or excessive. The standing level of ten points, however, would be acceptable to us. So then. Would the CFAAP, or indeed other Parties, support this Tax Credit with the abolition of Article 3? |
| Date | 02:55:26, November 29, 2005 CET | From | Communist Fascist And Anarchial Party | To | Debating the Working Persons Tax Credit |
| Message | We have full support for these two remaining articles |
| Date | 07:22:12, November 29, 2005 CET | From | United Centrists | To | Debating the Working Persons Tax Credit |
| Message | We can support the proposal. |
| Date | 15:02:08, November 29, 2005 CET | From | Solentian Socialist Party | To | Debating the Working Persons Tax Credit |
| Message | Then we will move it to a vote. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes | Total Seats: 216 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | |||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 484 |
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