No. 69 When people evade income taxes by not declaring taxable income, a vicious cycle results. Tax evasion forces lawmakers to raise income tax rates, which causes the tax burden on nonevading taxpayers to become heavier. This, in turn, encourages even more taxpayers to evade income taxes by hiding taxable income.
The vicious cycle described above could not result unless which of the following were true?
A. An increase in tax rates tends to function as an incentive for taxpayers to try to increase their pretax incomes.
B. Some methods for detecting tax evaders, and thus recovering some tax revenue lost through evasion, bring in more than they cost, but their success rate varies from year to year.
C. When lawmakers establish income tax rates in order to generate a certain level of revenue, they do not allow adequately for revenue that will be lost through evasion. (这句话什么意思啊？）
D. No one who routinely hides some taxable income can be induced by a lowering of tax rates to stop hiding such income unless fines for evaders are raised at the same time.
E. Taxpayers do not differ from each other with respect to the rate of taxation that will cause them to evade taxes.
Because lawmakers do not allow adequete loss through tax evasion, the actual tax revenue they can get never meets the expected number. That's why lawmakers will be forced to raise tax rate in the next year.
If adequete loss through evasion is considered and allowed to some extent, then there will be no need to raise tax rate and thus the vicious cycle is broke.作者: natalietong 时间: 2011-5-22 20:33
