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Appendix II. Examination Questions.

in the one case and not in the

  1. Explain the incidence of taxes laid on wages.
  1. Why should a tax on profits, if no improvements follow, fall on the laborer and capitalist?
  1. Explain what effect, if any, will be produced on the price of corn by—
(1) a tax upon rent;
(2) a tithe;
(3) a tax of so much per acre, irrespective of value;
(4) a tax of so much per bushel.
  1. On whom does a tax of a fixed proportion of agricultural produce fall?
  1. Discuss the question whether the income-tax ought to be a tax upon income and property, or upon expenditure.
  1. Discuss the expediency of a graduated income-tax.
  1. State the arguments which you think strongest both for and against exempting savings from the income-tax.
  1. Explain the conditions which
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