FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
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ISBN: 9781259964947
Author: Libby
Publisher: MCG
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Scenario:  You have just been hired by the country of "Shorelinia" to create a tax system

Your tax system must collect at least $1,000 billion in revenue.  You have three taxes to choose from;  income tax, sales tax, and payroll tax.

a)

Step 1.A.1. - Personal Income Tax rates

You must decide personal income tax rates for 3 income groups: lower, middle, and upper income.  (For each group you will choose the marginal tax rate.  Your choices are 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 30%, 35%, 40%, 45%, or 50%.)

In the table below, you will find how much revenue you will collect from each income group.

                                                   Income tax revenue (in billions of $) at various tax rates
  0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40% 45% 50%
Lower $0 $20 $40 $60 $80 $100 $120 $140 $160 $180 $200
Middle $0 $25 $50 $75 $100 $125 $150 $175 $200 $225 $250
Upper $0 $50 $100 $150 $200 $250 $300 $350 $400 $450 $500

 

The income tax rates will be: 

Lower (income under $40,000) = ________%

Middle ($40,000 - 100,000) = ________%

Upper (over $100,000) = ________%

     (fill in space below)

b)

Income Tax Revenue

Referring to the table above,

Total income tax revenue = $_______billion (lower)  +  $_______billion (middle)  +  $_______billion (upper)  =  $________billion

     (fill in space below)

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