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Bill: Consumer sales taxation
Details
Submitted by[?]: We Say So! 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: April 2153
Description[?]:
| With the reduction of consumer sales taxation to more reasonable levels the Department of Finance hopes to stimulate consumer expenditure within the economy. Though it is excepted that there will be a short-term reduction in overall Government income, this should be met by increased economic growth in the medium - long term. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 50
Current: 0
Proposed: 0.5
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 50
Current: 50
Proposed: 17.8
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:24:08, December 03, 2005 CET | From |   Liberal-Progressive Union | To | Debating the Consumer sales taxation |
| Message | Looks good. You have made many citizens very happy, I would assume. |
| Date | 15:10:16, December 03, 2005 CET | From | United Blobs | To | Debating the Consumer sales taxation |
| Message | 17.8%? Why not at least make it an easy number to do calculations in (e.g. 15, 17.5 or 20). Yes to the first one though. |
| Date | 12:48:44, December 09, 2005 CET | From | Hobrazian Peoples Party | To | Debating the Consumer sales taxation |
| Message | the HPP agree that taxation on vital goods should be lowered, but to a mere nonexisting level. We should slowly decrease the taxation by 5 % every 6th month until we reach a level of 25 %! This proposal we can't support! |
| Date | 19:00:49, December 09, 2005 CET | From | We Say So! Party | To | Debating the Consumer sales taxation |
| Message | @HPP - We couldn't lower the taxation level every 6th month even if we wanted to as it takes 9 months to pass a bill. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 270 | |||||
| no | Total Seats: 35 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 95 |
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