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Bill: Income tax proposal of April 3525
Details
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: April 3526
Description[?]:
| The Konservativ-Liberale Partei propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Imperium Selucianum. Timetable for the introducment of the poll tax: The government intends to fix the income tax to one simple tax with a small regressive element. In order to strgthen public believe in this measure we suggest the follwing timetable: by 3528: issuing letters to all households to explain the changes by 3529: introducement of the poll tax by 3530 introducement of the regressive element |
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 |
| > 2,300 SEN | 8% | 18,611,000,000 SEN |
| > 7,000 SEN | 15% | 29,730,000,000 SEN |
| > 20,000 SEN | 30% | 14,936,000,000 SEN | Total | 63,277,000,000 SEN |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 03:22:05, August 04, 2013 CET | From | Libertarian Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of April 3525 |
| Message | Senators, Could the KLP clarify on the defination of the "poll tax"? -Senator Josiah Bavious |
| Date | 12:28:14, August 04, 2013 CET | From | LP | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of April 3525 |
| Message | Seantors, the poll tax is one tax rate for everyone. Finance minister and senator, Cicero Klausius, KLP |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 396 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 249 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: References to prominent real-life persons are not allowed. This includes references to philosophies featuring the name of a real-life person (eg. "Marxism", "Thatcherism", "Keynesianism"). |
| Random quote: "Hatred is not, and should never be considered as another form of freedom of expression." - Icarion Dadhelus, former Selucian politician |