A Friend Tells You He Is Studying the Incidence of the Corporate

question 1

Multiple Choice

A friend tells you he is studying the incidence of the corporate income tax. What is the subject of his study?

• A) how frequently corporations should be taxed
• B) how inflation affects the amount of tax revenue collected from firms
• C) how corporations can aid the government in collecting delinquent taxes
• D) how the burden of corporate taxation is distributed among stockholders, employees, and consumers

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Definitions:

Speech Act Theory

The theory that verbal utterances both state something and do something.

Intentionalist Model

A theory that views communication as the exchange of communicative intentions and views messages transmitted as merely the means to this end.

Encoder-Decoder

A model in communications and information processing that describes the process of transferring information from a sender (encoder) to a receiver (decoder).

Proxemics

The study of how humans use space in communication and the effects that population density has on behavior, communication, and social interaction.