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If Clark Martinez earns $55,000 a year and pays $11,000 in taxes, and Melissa Roberts earns $70,000 a year and pays $23,500 in taxes, we can conclude that this tax system is:

a. progressive.

b. flat.

c. regressive.

d. proportional.

e. We cannot conclude what type of tax system this is on the basis of the information given.

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1) Which of the following explains the distribution of income?

Select one:

a. a positive externality

b. The person on which the final burden of a tax falls

c. An unintended result of taxation

d. The way that income is allocated to individuals, families, and other groups

2)Why can suppliers of goods can more easily shift the incidence of a tax to the consumer if the demand of the good is inelastic?

Select one:

a. Because markets that sell inelastic goods have so much competition, that a tax increase would not be noticed.

b. Because the tax would make marginal utility equal marginal benefit.

c. When taxes are levied, companies legally have to increase their prices.

d. Because the consumer needs the good regardless of the new price.

3)Where is the power to issue taxes granted to the federal government?

Select one:

a. The sixteenth amendment to the constitution

b. The bill or rights

c. The 20th amendment to the constitution

d. The declaration of independence

4)

What are intergovernmental revenues generally used to do?

Select one:

a. Sanitation workers’ benefits

b. To create national parks

c. Educate and provide public welfare

d. Provide public transportation for all state employees

5)

One of the noted advantages of a flat tax is

Select one:

a. all members of congress generally agree with issuing a flat tax

b. The flat tax offers a relatively simple tax process

c. There is a defined and agreed upon tax rate already in place.

d. The flat tax removes behavior incentives that are built into the tax code

6) Which of the following is TRUE regarding the “incidence of a tax”.

Select one:

a. This is a tax paid by all people to establish social security payments

b. This refers to the individual(s) who take the final burden of the tax

c. This is a loophole designed to help the rich

d. This is a tax on individuals who run oligopolies

7)

Person “A” earns $10,000 a year and pays 10% of his income in taxes. Person “B” earns $60,000 a year and pays 20% in taxes. Which kind of tax is being represented?

Select one:

a. A regressive tax

b. A progressive tax

c. A loophole tax

d. A flat tax

1. Do the math. Due to in-kind-transfers, 36 million more Americans were poor in 2010 than in 1965.

2. Which of the core choices that confront every nation is failing in the income distribution inequality? For whom

3. In a progressive tax system the marginal tax rate is the rate imposed on the last dollar of income.

4. If the tax elasticity of supply is 0.15, by how much will the quantity supplied decrease when the marginal tax rate increases from 35 to 45 percent?

Answer 3.8%

5. Had Obama succeeded in raising the top marginal tax rate (News, p. 417), how much more tax would he have paid in 2010? (Use the tax rates in Table 19.1 and the News on p. 415.)

Answer: 52,228.82.

6. What percentage of income is paid in Social Security taxes by a worker earning

(a) $40,000?

(b) $80,000?

(c) $200,000?

(d) What kind of tax is this? (A: progressive; B: regressive; C: proportional)

Answers:

(a) __________.

(b__________.

(c____________.

(d) ____________

7. A nominal tax rate is tax paid divided by taxable income.

8. An effective tax rate is tax paid divided by total income.

The basis that describes the regressive tax burden of property taxes on the renter, who does not own property is tax incidence

46. In a proportional income tax system,

marginal tax rates increase as the level of taxable income increases.

marginal tax rates are the same regardless of the level of taxable income.

everyone pays the same dollar amount in taxes.

marginal tax rates decline as the level of taxable income declines.

47 A tax system that applies a lower marginal tax rate at higher levels of income is

backward.

regressive.

progressive.

proportional.

48 The average tax rate can be calculated by which of the following formulas?

The change in taxes due divided by the change in taxable income

The change in taxable income divided by the change in taxes due

Total taxable income divided by total taxes due

Total taxes due divided by total taxable income

49 Under a progressive income tax system, the marginal income tax rate paid by taxpayers

declines as their incomes increase

. is unrelated to their incomes.

rises as their incomes increase.

is unchanged as their incomes increase.

50 The tax base is the minimum amount of tax revenue that government must collect each year.

the maximum amount of tax revenue that government must collect each year.

the sum of all incomes earned in the United States.

the value of all goods, services, incomes, or wealth subject to taxation.

51 A capital gain is defined as the tax paid when one sells an asset.

the tax rate one pays when one moves into a higher tax bracket.

an unanticipated increase in income.

the positive difference between the sale price and the purchase price of an asset.

52 Corporate profits are

taxed twiceonce by the corporate tax system, and again by personal tax system when they are paid to stockholders as dividends.

taxed only when a stockholder sells his or her shares of stock.

taxed at too low a rate.

taxed three timesonce by the corporate tax system, again by the personal tax system, and again as capital gains.

53 Social Security taxes are regressive because

they apply only to rich people.

they are not applied to income beyond a certain amount.

they are applied to welfare recipients.

they are applied to retired people only.

54 The largest share of federal government tax receipts is derived from

excise taxes.

individual income taxes.

corporate income taxes.

social insurance contributions.

55 Local government expenditures depend on which taxes?

Social Security taxes

Local property, sales, and excise taxes

Capital gains taxes

Revenues from licenses and permits

56 When the purchase price of an asset is less than its sale price, then there is a

budget deficit.

corporate income tax.

capital gain.

capital loss.

57 The earnings that a corporation saves for investment in other productive activities are

transfers in kind. c

apital gains.

tax incidence.

retained earnings.

58 Tax incidence refers to

determining who sends the taxes into the government.

the distribution of tax burdens among groups, or who really pays a tax.

the tendency of some people to avoid paying taxes at all.

determining the marginal tax rate applied to any increase in income.

59 Social Security taxes are paid by

neither employers nor employees

both employers and employees.

employers only.

employees only.

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