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tanghutun

1、A选项错在哪里？

122. 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 years 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.

(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.

[此贴子已经被作者于2004-8-8 21:15:44编辑过]

lawyer_1

这是ASSUMPTION题：A意思为：税率增加倾向于鼓励纳税人努力增加税前收入。原文讨论的是税率加重让原来没逃税的人也逃税的问题，和A没关系。