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Expand Pruning, Reduce Government Pay, and Manage Taxation
BILL
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Expand Pruning, Reduce Government Pay, and Manage Taxation
1 - About this Act
(1) This Act
(a) may be cited as ‘The Prune Redistributing and Income Narrowing Taxation Act’ or ‘The PRINT Act’ for short.
(b) may be numbered as P.B.04-xxx.
(c) shall be enacted upon receiving assent from His Majesty the King
(d) has been authored by MP ConsequencesInc.
(e) has been co-sponsored by Minister of Development MrNeighbor and Prime Minister McBrittle419
2 - Amendments to the Revenue Act
(1) Section 10 - Property Tax shall be replaced with the following text:
“(1) Players shall be taxed weekly based on the number of properties that they own, following the property tax schedule outlined in the below table:
| Number of Plots | Tax Amount |
| 1 | £60 |
| 2 | £60 |
| 3 | £80 |
| 4 | £110 |
| 5 | £150 |
| 6 | £200 |
| 7 | £260 |
| 8 | £330 |
| 9 | £400 |
| 10 | £480 |
| 11 | £570 |
| 12 | £670 |
| 13 | £780 |
| 14 | £900 |
| 15 | £1030 |
| 16 | £1170 |
| 17 | £1320 |
| 18 | £1480 |
| 19 | £1650 |
| 20 | £1830 |
| 21+ | £2020 |
(2) Any plot legally owned by non-person legal entities shall be counted towards the plot ownership total of the in-game owner of said plot.
(3) Purely residential plots (known as r-plots) shall be exempt from taxation. Mixed use plots (known as rc-plots) are not exempt from taxation.”
(2) Section 11 - Prune Tax shall be amended in the following manner:
“11 - Prune Tax
(1) Players who have not logged on in 90 days or more shall be subject to a Prune Tax. The total of each affected player’s balance and all of their associated business balances over £1,200 shall be taxed at a rate of 100% by the Ministry of Trade and Finance.
(2) This tax shall be fined by the Ministry of Trade and Finance.
(a) The Ministry shall begin the process of determining which players are affected by the Prune Tax on the first of each month.
(b) Taxation is due by the end of the second week of the month.
(3) The Ministry of Trade and Finance shall provide notice to each player who was affected by the Prune Tax by in-game mail. The Ministry shall also keep a record of each player who was affected by the Prune Tax, and how much money was taxed from them and their business(es).
(4) Any player who was affected by a Prune Tax may submit a request to the Ministry of Trade and Finance to have their balance and business(es) balance(s) returned to them. The Ministry must respond to each request within 7 days.
(a) The Ministry of Trade and Finance may promulgate policy regarding balance return requests, including eligibility standards. These policies must be based on objective criteria, applied uniformly across all players, and viewable by the public.
(b) The Ministry of Trade and Finance may only reject balance return requests in accordance with these policies, and must provide clear and concise reasoning when issuing denials.
(c) The Ministry of Trade and Finance may pay back returned balances either in full, in-part based on standing policy, or agree to a payment plan with the individual whose balance is being returned.
(5) Any player who has been Pruned who returns to the server is entitled to a one-time, non-repeatable £1200 balance refresh issued by the Alexandrian Monetary Bureau in lieu of a balance return.
(a)This balance refresh shall be offered as an alternative to any qualifying player and shall be approved so long as the player is not currently under economic sanctions.
(b) Electing to take a balance refresh forfeits the player’s right to reclaim any balances pruned before the balance refresh is given.
(i) The player electing to take a refresh will be notified of this provision by the Alexandrian Monetary Bureau.
(6) Monies received from the Prune Tax shall be apportioned by the following schedule after 7 days have passed:
(a)45% goes to the SCGovernment Account
(b)30% Goes to the Monetary Policy Reserve Fund
(c)20% Goes into the MoTF Account, earmarked to fund new player business grants and loans
(d) 5% Goes into the RDIC (Royal Deposit Insurance Corporation) Account.”
3 - Amendments to the Pay Scale Act
(1) Section 4 - Pay Levels shall be amended in the following manner:
“4 - Pay Levels
(1) Level 0: Commission | For certain government employees.
(2) Level 1: £12.50 £9 per 15 minutes | For the highest position in each branch.
(3) Level 2: £11.25 £7 per 15 minutes | For significant government officials.
(4) Level 3: £7.50 £5 per 15 minutes | For high level government officials.
(5) Level 4: £5 £3.5 per 15 minutes | For certain government employees.
(6) Level 5: £2.5 £2 per 15 minutes | Universal Basic Income.”
4 - Payroll Checks
(1) At the end of each Month and start of each Parliamentary Term, every branch of government and Ministry shall check its current list of hired individuals in their respective Discord servers and purge any inactive members from the rolls of their roles to prevent overpayment and false payment of individuals.
5 - Government Account Establishments and Rules
(1) Given that the Monetary Bureau and Royal Deposit Insurance Corporation do not have official accounts, the following shall be done:
(2) The MoTF may request that server staff create 2 new government accounts: SCMonetary and SCRDIC under the management of the MoTF. For all intents and purposes of budgets these accounts shall be considered as part of the total budget allocated to the MoTF but should not be touched.
(a) If new government accounts cannot be created or the MoTF chooses to, the MoTF shall keep internal records of the balances of the accounts reserved for the Monetary Bureau and Royal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
(3) No Government Budget may reduce the budget allocated to the MoTF below the threshold of the total amount of money reserved for the Monetary Bureau and/or the Royal Deposit Insurance Corporation without both:
(a) The express permission of both the Minister of Trade and Finance and the Secretary of the Monetary Bureau, and
(b) A Motion to Drain the Monetary Bureau and RDIC accounts that is approved by a Supermajority of Parliament.
(4) This following warning must be included in at the end of a Motion to Drain the Monetary Bureau and RDIC accounts: “If the current government hasn’t already seriously considered common sense alternatives to draining the Monetary Bureau and RDIC accounts such as printing, issue bonds, increasing taxes and/or decreasing wages/spending, and still decides to move forward with this action, please know that it will likely cause serious financial repercussions on the Monetary Bureau and the overall stability of the Financial System without proper alternatives”.
(5) The following warning must be included before the passage of any Act of Parliament that Modifies §6 of the PRINT Act: “If the current government is trying to modify the obligations under Section 6 of the PRINT Act without proper replacement legislation or serious meditation, please reconsider.”
6 - Severability
(1) The provisions of this act are severable. Should one part of it be declared unconstitutional, it shall not affect the parts which remain.