Verbal Review 2nd --- 69

buttonwood

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.



谁能帮我分析一下，本人大脑已经完全不转了。。。正确答案是C。我把问题看反了选的A，但即便如此感觉还是不是很明白这道题，头脑发晕。。。大牛们给力啊！

sayysong

they do not allow adequately for revenue that will be lost through

evasion --> they did not anticipate such evasion and they did not set

the tax rate accordingly to compensate for such evasion.

arthurman

当人们逃税的时候，就会产生个恶性循环：逃税就导致立法者提高税率，高税率让不逃税的人负担更重，于是这些本来不逃税的人也开始逃税了。

问题：除非下面哪个发生，这个恶性循环才不会发生捏？

C。当立法者设立的这个税率是为了到达一定的税收时，这些立法者不考虑那些因为逃税而减少的税收部分。。

就是说，立法者只管要达到一定的税收就好了，也不管人家逃不逃税了。。所以就不会去征高额的税。。从恶性循环的开始就掐断了这个循环的可能性。。

一点愚见。。。望指教。

winny0821

可是在达到一定的税收前　这个恶性循环已经发生了呢。。

zhangluE

理解循环的意思 加税-〉更多人逃税 —〉再加税 周而复始，一次加足了就

没有这个问题了

mudiduanger

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.

natalietong

我看你的 翻译想了 好久 本来 有点明白 完全 给我搞懵了~你那问题 的 意思不对吧~
问题应该问的 是 下面哪一个能让这个循环发生~，，，
所以你后面那些分析 全都不对吧。。。

上面说的循环不能发生，除非下面哪一个是正确的~字面意思应该是这样理解的吧。。。你那个不对。。