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Bill: Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax
Details
Submitted by[?]: New Liberal Party of Hutori
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: October 4432
Description[?]:
| A bill for comprehensive budget and tax reform. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on essential goods such as food and non-luxury clothing.
Old value:: 0
Current: 0
Proposed: 3
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:22:56, July 26, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, While we know there is no appetite for comprehensive tax reform right before an election, we would like to begin the conversation as to how we can make our tax system fairer and simpler. The goals of the New Liberal party moving forward with respect to tax reform are as follows: 1) Reduce the number and levels of income tax brackets to make taxation easier, simpler, and more efficient 2) Increase the minimum income level for taxation from 20,000 HLR to a higher level - preferably 30,000. Why should our poorest people be taxed at a rate that is higher than our corporations? 3) Increase the essential goods tax to offset budgetary losses from other tax cuts. All people purchase essential goods, therefore the essential goods tax is a sales tax and a tax on consumption. The more goods you consume, the more you will be taxed. 5) Reduce the national government's budget to offset tax revenue decreases. With as much power as has been transferred to the provinces in the past few years, the federal government need not spend as much money as it does now. We ask our friends and colleagues for their opinions and comments on these goals. In the next parliament, the New Liberals will put forth a bill for comprehensive tax reform and we would like all major parties to be involved in its creation. Peter Knox New Liberal Parliamentary Leader New Liberal Presidential Candidate MP for Axminster South |
| Date | 16:24:20, July 26, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | OOC: And apparently Knox can't count. There was supposed to be a 4 instead of a 5 there. Whoops! Maybe the guy who can't count shouldn't be spearheading tax reform! lol |
| Date | 17:15:50, July 26, 2018 CET | From | Ultrackian Communist Party | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr speaker, we disagree with point 1, we believe that there should be more brackets so we can have more pricise taxes |
| Date | 05:03:25, July 29, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, President Knox has laid out four major goals for tax reform: 1) Reduce the number of income brackets 2) Increase the minimum income level for taxation 3) Increase the essential goods tax to revenue decreasees 4) Reduce total Federal budget and expenses The New Liberal Party has proposed the above policy prescriptions following those guidelines. However, we believe that no party has a monopoly on good ideas and would like to hear from our friends in government and across the aisle about how we can improve the bill before we bring it up for a vote. Thank you all, I look forward to your input. Jim O'Neill MP for Acton Gardens Minister for Education and Culture Parliamentary Leader of the New Liberal Party |
| Date | 05:10:37, July 29, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, This is the proposed New Liberal budget: Head of Government 50,000,000 HLR Foreign Affairs 1,250,000,000 HLR Internal Affairs 10,000,000,000 HLR Finance 4,000,000,000 HLR Defence 85,000,000,000 HLR Justice 15,000,000,000 HLR Infrastructure and Transport 90,000,000,000 HLR Health and Social Services 102,000,000,000 HLR Education and Culture 55,000,000,000 HLR Science and Technology 75,000,000,000 HLR Food and Agriculture 8,000,000,000 HLR Environment and Tourism 6,500,000,000 HLR Trade and Industry 10,000,000,000 HLR Total 471,800,000,000 HLR Sophia Morris MP for South Langdon Deputy Leader of the New Liberal Party |
| Date | 05:13:20, July 29, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, One can inspect that budget proposal here: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=577252 Sophia Morris MP for South Langdon Deputy Leader of the New Liberal Party |
| Date | 05:24:13, July 29, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Now that all three parts of the Presidential Tax Reform bill have been put into place, here are the links to those bills. Income tax reduction Bill: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=577253 Reduction of budget bill: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=577252 Sophia Morris MP for South Langdon Deputy Leader of the New Liberal Party |
| Date | 16:23:29, July 29, 2018 CET | From | Consumers party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr Speaker, Why would you tax essential goods more than corporations you monster. I completely oppose this part. You should raise corporate taxes instead. |
| Date | 16:49:02, July 29, 2018 CET | From |  Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker I'll allow the Minister of Finance and the Auditor General a chance to look through your numbers and will be deferring to them for the Presidential Tax Reform Bills. Clark Drumf Chancellor of the Commonwealth of Hutori Leader of the Royalist Party MP for Acton Centre |
| Date | 21:08:31, July 29, 2018 CET | From | Hutori Party | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr Speaker, After examination of the current budget and taxation, and taking into account the new proposed budget and income tax brackets, we find that there will already be a surplus of more than 16 Billion HLR without this essential goods tax. We therefore find this tax to be uneccessary and will not support its implementation. Dylan Jourdain MP for Fairview Prosperity Leader of the Royalist Conservative Caucus Minister of Finance |
| Date | 23:05:35, July 29, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I ask if Mr. Jourdain would support the essential goods tax if we followed Ms. Morris's three-tax bracket proposal here: http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=577253 Doing so should offset the tax revenue losses, no? Jack Hill MP for Wrightstown Centre Government House Leader |
| Date | 23:18:20, July 29, 2018 CET | From | Hutori Party | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr Speaker, I actually believe the currently proposed income tax model will work better and is more economically feasible. Plus, I find it hard to support taxing things that are essential to everyday life. The Conservative Caucus will never suppprt an essential goods tax as we believe it will only hurt our poorest citizens. Dylan Jourdain MP for Fairview Prosperity Leader of the Royalist Conservative Caucus Minister of Finance |
| Date | 15:25:09, July 31, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, Given the opposition to the essential goods tax at a level as high as 9 percent, we have amended it to 3 percent. We do not believe a 3 percent sales tax on non-luxury items is too much for the Hutorian people to bear - especially considering that our income tax reform bill would make it so that anyone paid under 25K HLR would no longer have to pay any income tax. Seeing no additional comment, we will bring this bill up for a vote. Sophia Morris MP for South Langdon Interim Leader of the New Liberal Party |
| Date | 23:50:12, July 31, 2018 CET | From | New Liberal Party of Hutori | To | Debating the Presidential Tax Reform Bill, Part 1 of 3: Essential Goods Tax |
| Message | Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote for this bill, or the budget reduction bill (http://classic.particracy.net/viewbill.php?billid=577252&vote=yes) With out at least one of those two bills passing, we will have budget deficits in excess of 31B HLR! Sophia Morris MP for South Langdon Interim Leader of the New Liberal Party |
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Voting
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