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Economics Past Questions and Answers

Economics Questions

Question 766:
A state budget is an outline of planned
  • A Expenditures and revenues expected within a financial year
  • B Expenditures of ministries and parastatals within a given period
  • C Recurrent and capital expenditures within a year
  • D Sources of revenues derivationn for a financial year
  • E Use of different kinds of taxation in a given year
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Question 767:
Which of the following is NOT among the canons of taxation as set out by Adam Smith?
  • A Equality
  • B Security
  • C Certainty
  • D Convenience
  • E Economy
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Question 768:
An example of a regressive tax is?
  • A The personal income tax
  • B The graduated corporation income tax
  • C A general sales tax
  • D The inheritance tax
  • E The excise tax
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Question 769:
Tax which is levied on goods manufactured, sold or used within a country is?
  • A Sales tax
  • B Excise tax
  • C Direct tax
  • D Income tax
  • E Poll tax
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Question 770:
By terms of trade, we mean the?
  • A Ratio of exports and imports
  • B Differences between exports and imports
  • C Differences between current account and capital account
  • D Index of export prices to import prices expressed as a percentage
  • E Ratio of short-term capital movements to long-term capital movements
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