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Chapter Eight
Questions and Exercises
Examination Questions
1. Governments in the United States use a broad portfolio of taxes. Not all levels use the
same taxes to the same degree. Which of the following statements is not correct?
2. The idea that individuals with the same economic capacity should pay the same tax
represents:
3. Which of these elements does not represent tax transparency?
4. In a regressive tax rate structure:
5. The concept of vertical equity states that:
6. Which of the following taxes is not taxpayer active?
7. Real property taxes tend to have significantly lower compliance cost per dollar of
revenue raised than do individual income taxes because:
8. The marginal tax rate equals:
9. Which of the following is most crucial in determining behavior changes that can cause
losses in efficiency?
10. Excluding any legislated changes in statutory tax rates, for which tax base would one
expect the greatest revenue increase from a given increase in state economic activity?
11. A tax levied on a business will:
12. Which of the following is not an example of a tax causing an economic dislocation?
13. Which of the following is correct?
14. For a taxpayer passive tax, the total collection costs of the tax:
15. Why is it not appropriate to compare the cost of administering a local real property tax
with the cost of administering the federal individual income tax?
