You Are Trying to Design a Tax System That Will

question 218

Multiple Choice

You are trying to design a tax system that will simultaneously achieve both of the following goals: 1) two people with the same total income would pay taxes of the same amount, and 2) a high-income person would pay a higher fraction of income in taxes than a low-income person. Which of the following tax systems could achieve both goals?

• A)a lump-sum tax
• B)a regressive tax
• C)a progressive tax
• D)a proportional tax

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