Suppose That in Some Tax Year You Earned a Nominal

question 169

Multiple Choice

Suppose that in some tax year you earned a nominal interest rate of 4 percent. During the time you held these funds inflation was 1 percent. You compute that you made a real after-tax interest rate of 2 percent. What was your tax rate?

• A)50 percent
• B)33.3 percent
• C)25 percent
• D)None of the above are correct.

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