大全-III-8

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State X’s income-averaging law allows a portion of one’s income to be taxed at lower rate than the rate based on one’s total taxable income. To use income averaging, the taxpayer must have earned taxable income for a particular year that exceeds 140 percent of his or her average taxable income for the previous three years. People using income averaging owe less tax for that year than they would without income averaging.

Which of the following individuals would be most seriously affected if income averaging were not permitted in computing the taxes owed for current year?

(A) Individuals whose income has steadily decreased for the past three years

(B) Individuals whose income increased by 50 percent four years ago and has remained the same since then

(C) Individuals whose income has doubled this year after remaining about the same for five years

(D) Individuals who had no income this year, but did in each of the previous three years（C）

(E) Individuals who are retired and whose income has remained about the same for the past ten years

lismiles

X州平均收入的政策允许以低税率而非基于总收入的高税率对纳税人的部分收入征税，要使用收入平均政策，纳税人某一年的收入应是前3年平均收入的1.4倍。使用了收入平均政策的人在这一年将少缴税。

C. 在过去5年中收入保持不变，而今年收入翻倍的人。

前三年平均收入X,今年收入2X, 满足上述条件。

如果没有平均收入政策，那么他受到的影响将最大。