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Bill: DLVP 3.1: Church Tax Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Dorvische Landvolkpartei
Status[?]: defeated
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: September 4342
Description[?]:
| Article I: All citizens will be official registered as a member of the "Verbesserung Bekennenden und Reformierte Hosianliche Kirche Dorvik" (Confessional Ameliorate and Reformed Hosian Church of Dorvik) or VBRD, unless they register with a different faith or unregister themselves. Article II: The registered members of the VBRD, the recognized and sole State Religion and Church of Dorvik, shall pay a church tax of no more than 1.5% taxable income. Article III: These funds will collected from EXISTING income tax of the State and deposited to the State Church. If a citizen wishes their 1.5% of income to be deposited in another recognized religion in Dorvish, they may specify on their registration form. Article IV: Those who are not registered to the Church will see their funds deposited in State coffers for state purposes. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Racial and religious registration of nationals.
Old value:: The government does not require nationals to register their race or religion.
Current: All nationals are required to register their race and religion.
Proposed: All nationals are required to register their race and religion.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change
Taxation of religious institutions.
Old value:: Religions are treated as companies, and all profit is taxed, however, charitable donations are not taxed.
Current: All religious income, despite the use, is taxed.
Proposed: Recognized religions are not taxed.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 14:16:10, January 30, 2018 CET | From | Neue Ära | To | Debating the DLVP 3.1: Church Tax Act |
| Message | Herr Speaker, We quite simply object to this. We are not believers in a state religion, voluntary or not, especially when it involves taxing the people, where it is taken out of income tax or not. Otto Jager-Wu State Chancellor |
| Date | 23:13:05, January 30, 2018 CET | From | Dorvische Landvolkpartei | To | Debating the DLVP 3.1: Church Tax Act |
| Message | Herr Speaker, Objecting to the State faith because it has tax attached to it seems strange. This tax is voluntary and is only for voluntarily registered members of the VBRD and it says so in the Act's bylaws. Similarly, it is a 1.5% tax; that will not make or break anyone. Likewise, what is the matter with a voluntary State Religion? It is voluntary and of no burden to anyone but the faithful. Dr. Clara Augusta Kirsch, Dr.B |
| Date | 12:28:54, February 01, 2018 CET | From | Dorvische Kommunistische Partei | To | Debating the DLVP 3.1: Church Tax Act |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This is another attempt to introducing creeping theocracy into Dorvik. The Dorvish people will not stand for it. Religious is the tool of capitalists and the opium of the masses. Klaus Erdmann (General Secretary of the Dorvish Communist Party) |
| Date | 02:27:01, February 02, 2018 CET | From | Dorvische Landvolkpartei | To | Debating the DLVP 3.1: Church Tax Act |
| Message | Her Speaker, Metz spoke of a "opium" as in how it was being used by those in power, not in the practice of religion itself. So glad we "uneducated" farmers could school the "super-smart" Commies. This in no way, shape, or form is such a practice. No one will be silenced or controlled through a State church: it is a statement of who we are. Dr. Clara Augusta Kirsch, Dr.B |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes | Total Seats: 257 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 342 | ||||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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