Using the Following Choices, Show the Justification for Each Provision

question 143

Multiple Choice

Using the following choices, show the justification for each provision of the tax law listed.
a. Economic considerations
b. Social considerations
c. Equity considerations
d. Both a. and b.
-A Federal deduction for state and local sales taxes paid.

• A)Deferral of gains from involuntary conversions
• B)Carryforward of net operating losses
• C)"No change" is a possible result
• D)State income tax applied to a visiting nonresident
• E)IRS special agent
• F)Undoing the "piggyback" result
• G)Ideal budget goal as to new tax legislation
• H)Every state that has a general sales tax has one
• I)Imposed by all states and the Federal government
• J)Imposed by some states but not the Federal government
• K)Imposed only by the Federal government
• L)No correct match provided

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Definitions:

Contractionary Fiscal Policy

Economic measures employed by a government to reduce its expenditures or increase taxes with the aim of slowing down an overheated economy.

Potential Output

The highest level of real gross domestic product (GDP) that can be sustained over the long term without increasing inflation, reflecting the maximum productive capacity of an economy.

Short-Run Aggregate Supply

The total production of goods and services in an economy at different price levels in the short-term, considering wages and resource prices as sticky.

Short-Run Aggregate Supply

The total production of goods and services in an economy at different price levels over a short period, during which some production costs are fixed.