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Bill: Tax Reforms
Details
Submitted by[?]: Jakanian Milliyetçi Parti
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: June 4338
Description[?]:
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Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 10
Proposed: 5
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:45:53, January 22, 2018 CET | From |  Jakanian Milliyetçi Parti | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | "Since the 'Business Tax Act' has passed, the country is now facing a heavy deficit. We propose this slight raising of taxes to bring our country back into the black." Saadet Duran Finance Minister |
| Date | 17:55:54, January 22, 2018 CET | From | Milliyetçi Cumhuriyet Partisi (MCP) | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | Wow...you reduce taxes to Billionaires and Corporations and increase them for poor people....great job.... |
| Date | 19:32:40, January 22, 2018 CET | From | Jakanian Milliyetçi Parti | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | "We did not hear this kind of talk from the MCP when the 'Business Tax Act' was put to vote. They did not even vote against it." Saadet Duran Finance Minister |
| Date | 21:29:42, January 22, 2018 CET | From | Milliyetçi Cumhuriyet Partisi (MCP) | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | “We knee that it would pass anyway therefore didnt find it necessary to vote to such a draconian law”-Presdient of the MCP Attila Özoğuz |
| Date | 08:45:08, January 23, 2018 CET | From | Yurttaşın İlerleme Parti | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | I didn't propose that law just so that you can increase taxes on the people. The excess income that we generate from the reduced tax could be used so as to create welfare programs for the people. Sure we care about progress. But we ain't conservatives. |
| Date | 16:59:10, January 23, 2018 CET | From | Halkın Eylem Partisi | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | The HEP views this as a modest attempt at rebalancing the economy and tax base. We can support this low rate for basics and will not support any large increases in the future. Mehmet Cenani HEP party chairman Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Date | 17:14:33, January 23, 2018 CET | From | Milliyetçi Cumhuriyet Partisi (MCP) | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | “İ thought you people were supposed to be religious,i thought religion preached helping people not taxing their food”-President of the MCP Attila Özoğuz |
| Date | 17:49:39, January 23, 2018 CET | From | Halkın Eylem Partisi | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | Tax unfortunately is one of those things civilisation cannot do without. We will have to tax food much as we tax anything else. Mehmet Cenani HEP party chairman Minister of Foreign Affairs |
| Date | 00:39:34, January 24, 2018 CET | From | Milliyetçi Cumhuriyet Partisi (MCP) | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | “But it isnt necessary when its corporations,but it is when its essentials like food,hypocrisy at its finest”-President of the MCP Attila Özoğuz |
| Date | 06:37:13, January 24, 2018 CET | From | Halkın Eylem Partisi | To | Debating the Tax Reforms |
| Message | What hypocrisy? Corporations pay double the proposed rate here and contribute heavily to social security and charities. They also create and maintain millions of jobs. Mehmet Cenani Prime Minister |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 375 | ||
| no | Total Seats: 167 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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