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Bill: Income tax proposal of December 2156
Details
Submitted by[?]: Covenanters (IA)
Status[?]: passed
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: July 2158
Description[?]:
| The Democratic Unionist Party propose an interim tax policy to bring the Holy Luthori Empire closer to a fair flat taxation system. This represents a tax cut to most hard working families. |
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 |
| > 1 LPD | 25% | 49,361,000,000 LPD |
| > 3,500 LPD | 30% | 88,654,000,000 LPD |
| > 15,000 LPD | 35% | 9,941,000,000 LPD | Total | 147,956,000,000 LPD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:43:02, December 16, 2005 CET | From | Social Calvinist Unionist Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2156 |
| Message | The current one brings in more money, but that ones taxes are too high. Hmmm, tough decision. |
| Date | 08:51:35, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2156 |
| Message | This bill taxes the poor, so I will have to vote no, the people need to be able to buy food and other necessities. Why should they give up this to pay for their oppression. |
| Date | 09:20:52, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2156 |
| Message | Actually this bill taxes the rich more than the poor: do the GSJ understand how the brackets work? It deliberately brings in less, RzP, but brings in enough to cover current spending and our revised spending bill. |
| Date | 09:40:12, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2156 |
| Message | But you are taxing the poor. And unless the Revenue and Customs Department has a different definition of tax brackets than the Australian Tax Office, then I have a good understanding of how tax brackets works (both flat and progressive tax systems). Both your revised tax bill and your revised spending bill, by the way, are courageous. Taxing those that can't afford the necessities for living, very courageous. Spending approximately 20-30% of that on "law enforcement" and the military (especially WMDs), very courageous. |
| Date | 09:50:29, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2156 |
| Message | Are you trying to use the word "courageous" in the way that Sir Humphrey Appleby uses it, by any chance? We need to end this state of perpetual lawnessness to bring investors into the Empire. |
| Date | 11:48:47, December 19, 2005 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of December 2156 |
| Message | Yes. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 455 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 86 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 209 |
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