Typically Exempt from the Sales/use Tax Base Is the Purchase

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True/False

Typically exempt from the sales/use tax base is the purchase of lumber by a do-it-yourself homeowner when she builds a deck onto her patio. This exemption is known as the homestead rule.

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Definitions:

HHI

The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index, a measure of market concentration to assess the level of competition within an industry.

Herfindahl-Hirschman Index

A measure used to quantify the level of competition within an industry, calculated by squaring the market share of each firm and summing the total.

Market Share

The percentage of an industry's sales that a particular company controls.

Imperfectly Competitive Industry

An industry in which individual firms have some control over the price of their output.