Q37: GWD-29-Q17 The total market value of real estate in Altonville has steadily declined over the past four years. This decline has meant that the overall figure on which the city’s property tax is based—the assessed value of that real estate—has also declined. The percentage of assessed value that was paid as property taxes to the city, however, did not change from year to year during this period. A房地产的市场价值在过去的四年逐渐下降。这个下降意味着财产税依据的总数---房地产的评估价值---也在下降。评估价值的比率在过去的几年中没有变化。 The information above most strongly supports which of the following? A. The percentage of Altonville’s yearly revenue that comes from money collected in property taxes did not change over the past four years. B. The percentage of Altonville’s yearly revenue that comes from money collected in property taxes has declined steadily over the past four years. C. The amount of revenue that Altonville collected from property taxes was lower last year than it was four years ago. D. During the past four years, Altonville officials increased tax rates on other sources of revenue such as retail sales and business profits. E. Altonville will soon require property owners to pay a higher percentage of the assessed value of their property as property tax. 答案是C还是B?? 在GWD18里是C 在19里是B 没看懂题~~但是我觉得是B
Withou knowing what other tax revenes (in addition to property tax) are, there is no way you can be sure to say "The percentage of Altonville’s yearly revenue that comes from money collected in property taxes" is either decreasing or increasing.
When we talk about tax, the most recent tax year is always last year because this year's tax can ONLY be calculated next year.
我也觉得是C 从文中可以推出房地产总值四年来在下降(在一道类似变体的题目中的答案"The total amount of revenue that Altonville has collected from property taxes has declined over the past four years. "),所以去年肯定比四年前要低。 但是B说房地产税占所有税收中比率降低是没有依据的,因为没有说明总税收的情况怎么样,如果总税收降低幅度大于房地产税降低幅度,那么有可能房地产税占所有税收中比率反而上升。