The Amount of Sales Tax Collected by a Retail Store

question 107

Multiple Choice

The amount of sales tax collected by a retail store when making sales is

• A) a miscellaneous revenue for the store.
• B) a current liability.
• C) not recorded because it is a tax paid by the customer.
• D) recorded as an operating expense.

Recognize the role of tax policy in achieving economic policy objectives.

Understand the implications of specific taxes, such as excise taxes, on market efficiency and public welfare.

Understand the concept of deadweight loss due to taxation and its calculation.

Grasp the effects of tax elasticity on demand and supply and the resultant deadweight losses.

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Definitions:

Squared Deviation

The square of the difference between an observed value and the mean, used in statistical analysis to measure variance.

Mean

The arithmetic average of a set of values, calculated by summing all the values and then dividing by the number of values.

Variance

A measure of the dispersion or spread of a set of data points around their mean value.

Variance

A measure of how much the values in a data set differ from the mean of that set.