Freedom from Sales Tax

[Gluonmaster]

CONGRESS OF THE
COMMONWEALTH OF REDMONT​

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A BILL TO
FREEDOM FROM SALES TAX ​

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The people of the Commonwealth of Redmont, through their elected Representatives in the Congress and the force of law ordained to that Congress by the people through the constitution, do hereby enact the following provisions into law:

PART I - PRELIMINARIES

1. Short Title and Enactment
(1) This Act may be cited as the “Freedom from Sales Tax (FST)”.

(2) This Act shall be enacted immediately upon its signage.

(3) This Act has been authored by Representative Gluonmaster

(4) This Act has been sponsored by Representative Gluonmaster

(5) This Act has been co-sponsored by Representative DocTheory

(6) This Act amends the following acts:

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2. Reasons and Intent
(1) The sales tax was originally passed during the Jaron Wave in response to fears around the government deficit. However, the sales tax charges shop owners a fee on their profits. This adds up over time and decreases the amount of middle class private capital which is often either spent, paid out to people, or invested. This sales tax also increases the overhead cost of running a business which forces companies to either run at a loss due to other businesses not changing their prices or results in businesses having to increase their prices which ultimately hurts the consumer.

(2) Small business owners are less optimized around being profitable so adding sales taxes hurts them more then it would a large business who can figure out what the new prices should be and have a large scale effect on the price of a item. This means the sales tax causes extra harm to small businesses.

(3) Removing the Sales Tax is overwhelmingly popular, for example according to
The People's Daily; Senator TrueDarklander, Rep EATB, Rep SplashyAlpaca, Rep asdertplays, Rep SoapMcKakashi, support the full removal. Senator EmeraldGuuy want to cut it to the point where it would barely make any revenue. Simply removing the Sales Tax would be a favorable outcome for those who want to cut it to the point where it's not really needed anymore.

(4) The government already has a variety of revenue sources such as but not limited to pruning, property tax, criminal fines, license fees, test taking fees, auction tax, government renting property, and financial institution as well as balance tax. It is the believe of these representatives and senators who support this act that the government does not need to rely on sales tax for its revenue.

(5) The sales tax also targets wild town chest shops. This hurts wild towns and their rights to self determination without the interference of the Redmont Government.

PART II - AMENDMENTS




PART III - IMPLEMENTATION