The appropriate tax rate to consider gauging how much the tax system distorts incentives and decision making is the ?

Related Mcqs:

1. When a tax distorts incentives to buyers and sellers so that fewer goods are produced and sold than otherwise the tax has ?

   A. caused a deadweight loss
   B. decreased equity
   C. generated no tax revenue
   D. increased efficiency

2. The appropriate tax rate to consider judging the vertical equity of a tax system is the ?

   A. marginal tax rate
   B. average tax rate
   C. horizontal tax rate
   D. proportional tax rate

3. Imagine there is no tax on income up to Rs 1000 after that there is a tax of 505 what is the average tax rate on an income of Rs 20,000 ?

   A. Rs 50000
   B. 20%
   C. 25%
   D. Rs 10000

4. The property tax wealth tax inheritance tax and income taxes such as persona and corporate taxes are ?

   A. indirect taxes
   B. direct taxes
   C. inelastic
   D. value-added tax

5. Micheal Roemer’s three-sector model shows that growth in the booming export sector I- reduces the price of foreign exchange II- retards other sectors’ growth by reducing incentives to export other commodities III- reduces incentives to replace domestic goods for imports IV- raises factor and input prices for non-booming sectors ?

   A. I and III only
   B. II and III only
   C. I, II and III only
   D. I, II , III only IV

6. If the income tax rate changes from 30% to 40% on income over Rs30,000 and a person’s income is Rs 31,000 then her marginal tax rate is ?

   A. 30%
   B. 10%
   C. 70%
   D. 40%

7. Refer to Exhibit 4. If a tax is placed on the product in this market tax revenue paid by the buyers is the area ?

   A. B + C + E + F
   B. B
   C. B + C
   D. A

8. Refer to Exhibit 4. If a tax is placed on the product in this market tax revenue paid by the sellers is the area ?

   A. C + F
   B. A
   C. B
   D. C

9. When a tax on a good start small and is gradually increased tax revenue ?

   A. will fall
   B. will rise
   C. will first rise and then fall
   D. will first fall and then rise

10. If a tax on a good is doubled the deadweight loss from the tax ?

    A. doubles
    B. stays the same
    C. increase by a factor of four.
    D. could rise or fall