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Bill: Income tax proposal of October 2179
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: June 2180
Description[?]:
| The Progressive Unionist Party propose to adjust the government's income tax policy to better address the economic situation of the Holy Luthori Empire. |
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 |
| > 750 LPD | 10% | 1,412,000,000 LPD |
| > 1,000 LPD | 30% | 139,661,000,000 LPD | Total | 141,073,000,000 LPD |
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 17:36:39, February 02, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of October 2179 |
| Message | This is now a tax cut for EVERYBODY (except for a few in the £750-£1000 bracket who will pay the same taxes as before). 35% is far too high and this proposal removes the tax burden from the very poorest subjects altogether. |
| Date | 18:49:24, February 02, 2006 CET | From | Shuggoth Progressive Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of October 2179 |
| Message | Voting against this mostly because all funding legislation should be handled by the Finance Ministry. And besides we are currently in talks with other nations regarding the construction of a trans-Artania canal...reducing our tax at this time would make paying for this much harder. |
| Date | 21:36:59, February 02, 2006 CET | From | Seosavists Republican party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of October 2179 |
| Message | that leaves us with a deficiet, I was going to vote yes until I checked that. |
| Date | 23:21:24, February 02, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of October 2179 |
| Message | No it doesn't. Our budget is ninety thousand million and we raise ten thousand million through indirect taxation. That leaves eighty thousand million to be raised from income tax. |
| Date | 03:41:35, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Luthori Green Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of October 2179 |
| Message | Tax breaks for the poor, yes please. |
| Date | 16:54:43, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Shuggoth Progressive Party | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of October 2179 |
| Message | This bill did in fact give us a deficit. |
| Date | 17:33:45, February 03, 2006 CET | From | Covenanters (IA) | To | Debating the Income tax proposal of October 2179 |
| Message | We can address that through indirect taxation. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 365 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 282 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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