Devry ECO450 Week 10 Quiz

ECO 450 Week 10 QuizQuestion 1According to the Harberger model of the incidence of the corporate income tax, the tax:Question 2Under the corporation income tax in the United States,Question 3Accelerated depreciation allows corporations to:Question 4If corporations maximize profits, the short-run incidence of a tax on its profits will be borne by:Question 5The tax base for the corporate income tax in the United States is:Question 6The double taxation of dividends under U.S. tax code means:Question 7If an all-equity firm has after-tax income of $100,000 based on a 34% income tax, what is the after-tax income of an equivalent firm that pays $15,000 in interest that is tax deductible?Question 8If interest on corporate debt is tax deductible, a firm’s return on equity increases because:Question 9Assuming that the supply of savings is perfectly inelastic, the corporate income tax prevents the attainment of efficiency by:Question 10If the supply of savings is not perfectly elastic, the corporate income tax is likely to:Question 11In the long run a corporate income tax that initially reduces the return to investment in the corpo­rate sector will also:Question 12If corporations maximize profit, a corporate income tax:Question 13Assuming that corporations maximize profits and investors seek to maximize the return to their investments, the long-run impact of a corporate income tax is to:Question 14The effective tax rate is:Question 15Which of the following is true about the economic effects of the corporate income tax?Question 16In most states, the retail sales tax can be regarded as equivalent to a:Question 17The differential incidence of substituting a tax on comprehensive consumption for a tax on compre­hensive income is likely to be:Question 18Suppose two individuals earn the same salary each year over their lifetimes. One individual saves 25 percent of his income each year, while the other saves nothing. Over their lifetimes under a comprehensive income tax,Question 19The value-added tax used in the European Union:Question 20Consumption-in-kind:Question 21As administered in most states in the United States, the retail sales tax:Question 22Comprehensive consumption is:Question 23A flat-rate tax on comprehensive consumption:Question 24Which of the following taxes is likely to be most favorable for capital accumulation?Question 25The invoice method of collecting the value-added tax:Question 26Which of the following statements about taxes on consumption are true?Question 27A consumption-type, value-added tax:Question 28An adult’s life cycle is considered to begin:Question 29Assuming that a person never receives any cash gifts or bequests, a tax on comprehensive con­sumption is equivalent to a(n):Question 30A tax on comprehensive consumption