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प्रश्न
What is meant by regressive taxation?
What are regressive taxation?
Explain the following with examples:
Regressive tax
What is regressive tax?
What is a regressive tax?
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उत्तर
- Regressive tax is the opposite of progressive tax. A tax will be regressive when the rate of tax decreases as the tax base increases. Thus, it is directly opposite of progressive tax.
- The chief examples of regressive taxes are on these goods whose consumption society wishes to discourage, such as tobacco and alcohol.
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संबंधित प्रश्न
The essential feature of a tax.
A policy under which the government uses its expenditure and revenue to produce desirable effect and avoid undesirable effects on the national income, production and employment. This defines ______.
The following table indicates:
| Tax Base in ₹ | Rate of tax in % |
| 10,000 | 8 |
| 20,000 | 8 |
| 30,000 | 8 |
| 40,000 | 8 |
'The role of the State is important in developing the economic infrastructure of a developing economy'. Give two reasons to support your answer.
State the difference between income tax and expenditure tax.
What are progressive taxes.
Explain the term proportional taxation.
How does the state fulfil the following socio-economic objective?
Environmental protection.
State two differences between income tax and commodity tax.
Citing reasons state the superiority of Progressive tax over regressive tax.
