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Bill: Luxury Tax Increase Bill
Details
Submitted by[?]: Telamon Royalist Party
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: January 2290
Description[?]:
| The Telamon Commonwealth currently taxes bread, water, housing, and other necessities, at a rate of 5 percent. This tax, which ultimately harms the poor, is, we feel, retrograde, when an option exists, namely taxing luxury goods at a higher rate, a tax increase which would affect only those people who buy luxury items, a group of people which by its definition includes far more wealthy folks than it does poorer ones. Hence, the Telamon Royalist Party calls for an increase in the National Luxury Goods Tax of 5%. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change Sales tax on luxury goods.
Old value:: 15
Current: 27
Proposed: 20
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:12:54, September 25, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Luxury Tax Increase Bill |
| Message | Support. Place this to an immediate vote. |
| Date | 22:37:15, September 25, 2006 CET | From | Páirtí Sóisialach | To | Debating the Luxury Tax Increase Bill |
| Message | Again, the Centre party re-iterates its opposition to superfluous taxes on anything. |
| Date | 03:31:11, September 26, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Luxury Tax Increase Bill |
| Message | That's why it supports a token 1% life tax. |
| Date | 10:07:46, September 26, 2006 CET | From | United Liberal Alliance | To | Debating the Luxury Tax Increase Bill |
| Message | The UCA cannot support such a large tax increase. If anything we feel their should be slight reduction. We should also point out that we are generally opposed to the use of large sales taxes etc. to raise government revenue as they are regressive in nature |
| Date | 03:14:19, September 27, 2006 CET | From | Catholic Workers Union | To | Debating the Luxury Tax Increase Bill |
| Message | We can not afford a reduction. A raise in luxury taxes is an important means to curb growth in superfluous industries and focus capital investment in technological advances essential to a forward looking society. |
| Date | 04:21:28, September 27, 2006 CET | From | Telamon Royalist Party | To | Debating the Luxury Tax Increase Bill |
| Message | This tax, when matched with the elimination of the GST, will simply result in no change in price for luxury goods. There is nothing at stake here, except providing much of the same income the GST did, only with the burden being focused on those who can most afford to pay it, rather than those who can least afford it. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||
| yes |
Total Seats: 177 | ||
| no |
Total Seats: 123 | ||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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