-All-Chapters-Test-Bank-1 true or false questions with answers

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1. The ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was necessary to
validate the Federal income tax on individuals.

*a. True
b. False


2. Before the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, there was no valid
Federal income tax on individuals.

a. True
*b. False


3. The first income tax on individuals (after the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to
the Constitution) levied tax rates from a low of 2% to a high of 6%.


*a. True
b. False


4. The Federal income tax on corporations generates more revenue than the Federal income
tax on individuals.

a. True
*b. False


5. The pay-as-you-go feature of the Federal income tax on individuals conforms to Adam
Smith’s canon of convenience.

*a. True
b. False


6. Although the law is complicated, most individual taxpayers are able to complete their
Federal income tax returns without outside assistance.

a. True
*b. False


7. The FICA tax (Medicare component) on wages is progressive since the tax due increases
as wages increase.

, a. True
*b. False


8. The Federal estate and gift taxes are examples of progressive taxes.

*a. True
b. False


9. The Federal excise tax on cigarettes is an example of a proportional tax.


*a. True
b. False


10. Currently, the Federal income tax is more progressive than it ever has been in the past.

a. True
*b. False


11. Mona inherits her mother’s personal residence, which she converts to a furnished rent
house. These changes should affect the amount of ad valorem property taxes levied on the
properties.

*a. True
b. False


12. A fixture will be subject to the ad valorem tax on personalty rather than the ad valorem
tax on realty.

a. True
*b. False


13. Even if property tax rates are not changed, the ad valorem taxes imposed on realty may
not remain the same.

*a. True
b. False


14. The ad valorem tax on business use personalty is more often avoided by taxpayers than

,the ad valorem tax on personal use personalty.

a. True
*b. False


15. Federal excise tax is no longer imposed on cosmetics.

*a. True
b. False


16. The tax on hotel occupancy is subject to both Federal and state excise taxes.

a. True
*b. False


17. The Federal gas-guzzler tax applies only to automobiles manufactured overseas and
imported into the U.S.

a. True
*b. False


18. Like the Federal counterpart, the amount of the state excise taxes on gasoline do not
vary from state to state.

a. True
*b. False


19. The states that impose a general sales tax also have a use tax.

*a. True
b. False


20. Sales made by mail order are not exempt from the application of a general sales (or use)
tax.

*a. True
b. False


21. Two persons who live in the same state but in different counties may not be subject to

, the same general sales tax rate.

*a. True
b. False


22. States impose either a state income tax or a general sales tax, but not both types of
taxes.

a. True
*b. False


23. A safe and easy way for a taxpayer to avoid local and state sales taxes is to have the
purchase sent to an address in another state that levies no such taxes.

a. True
*b. False


24. On transfers by death, the Federal government relies on an estate tax, while states use
only an inheritance tax.

a. True
*b. False


25. An inheritance tax is a tax on a decedent’s right to pass property at death.

a. True
*b. False


26. One of the major reasons for the enactment of the Federal estate tax was to prevent
large amounts of wealth from being accumulated within the family unit.

*a. True
b. False


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Under Clint’s will, all of his property passes to either the Lutheran Church or to his wife.
No Federal estate tax will be due on Clint’s death in 2011.

*a. True