0455.4.3.5 — principles of taxation The qualities of a good tax.: past paper questions
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Explain two reasons why income inequality is lower in Uruguay than in the US.
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Define ‘tax’.
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two qualities of a good tax that the Tunisian government aimed to achieve.
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the difference between a proportional income tax system and a progressive income tax system.
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two qualities of a good tax.
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What examiners said
The key to answering this question was to recognise that both a progressive income tax system and a proportional income tax system would take a larger amount of tax from the rich than the poor. If that was understood, candidates could then concentrate in their answers on the difference between the two types of tax systems in terms of percentage of income taken in tax from the rich and the poor. Th...
— Examiner report, October/November 2022, 0455/22 Q3(b) (Cambridge)
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