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Bill: National Sales Tax Act of 2055
Details
Submitted by[?]: Unio enim si quis Motus Populi
Status[?]: passed
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: April 2059
Description[?]:
| Whereas Currently: The government is funded by nothing, possibly tariffs, thusly Hereby: All items shall have a small tax applied to them, a National Sales Tax, in order to fund the government, preventing the nation from going bankrupt Hereby: the National Sales Tax shall be set at 17.5%, which shall be proportional, and no more than, current established local taxes, etc |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 23:45:00, May 20, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | We have no system to fund the government. Tariffs are all that do it right now (which is actually all that funds a government if no national tax of some kind is in place), and I don't believe an Income Tax would suit our populations. Thusly, we have the National Sales Tax. What it should be set at, however, we don't know, and are putting that part up for debate. |
| Date | 08:42:41, May 21, 2005 CET | From | Universal Humanists | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | Is this tax meant to provide all government revenue? If so, we would assume that a tax of at least %10 would be necessary. However, we would also like to see cost-recovery taxes applied in cases where appropriate in the case of social and communal externalities. |
| Date | 19:43:08, May 21, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | For the time being, it would provide a large chunk of the government revenue. Though, perhapes 10% is a bit to high. 7% seems more fitting. |
| Date | 17:29:26, May 22, 2005 CET | From | Alderdath Lebrali Demkratti | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | how about 17.5% same as VAT |
| Date | 21:33:37, May 22, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | I'm not as well versed in European economics as I would like to be, but does 17.5% work well, or is there a big uproar about it? |
| Date | 21:45:18, May 22, 2005 CET | From | Alderdath Lebrali Demkratti | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | Nope. A 17.5% means we don't have to have our income taxed as highly |
| Date | 23:11:56, May 22, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | The European model sound good to everyone? |
| Date | 03:19:11, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Universal Humanists | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | We would propose that basic necessities should not be taxed (such as food and water). Of course, we may be in a minority on this issue. |
| Date | 05:33:05, May 24, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | in the interest of fairness, as the FMP put it to us with my tobacco tax, all products would be taxed, from food, to water, to luxury cars and the like. However, different tax values could be added to different products. For example, the base value would be 17.5% (for things like TVs, vacuums, furniture), but 15% for things like food and water, and then 20% for things likes cars, other big luxury items. |
| Date | 10:46:07, May 25, 2005 CET | From | Alderdath Lebrali Demkratti | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | that seams very fair. |
| Date | 21:08:10, May 27, 2005 CET | From | Unio enim si quis Motus Populi | To | Debating the National Sales Tax Act of 2055 |
| Message | we'll move this to a vote |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 176 | ||||||
| no | Total Seats: 0 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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