The franchise tax, formerly the state's main business tax, was replaced in 2006 with __________
a. a personal income tax
b. a broader-based business tax that applied not only to corporations but also to professional partnerships such as law firms
c. a value added tax (VAT) that taxed the manufacture of all goods and services produced in Texas
d. a narrower-based business tax that only taxed corporations that did not have their corporate headquarters in Texas
Answer: b
You might also like to view...
Those who are happy with our nation's social welfare system include:
a) Taxpayers b) No one is happy c) Social welfare professionals d) The needy
How has the heavy reliance on cell phones by citizens created problems for survey researchers?
a. It is now more difficult to draw a sample that is random. b. It is now more difficult to build intensity measures into responses. c. It is now more difficult to place repeated callbacks. d. It is now more difficult to cluster interviews geographically.
According to the logic of Duverger’s theory, if the United States changed its electoral rules and adopted a permissive form of PR (with large district magnitudes), what do you predict would happen? (You should assume that the United States has a fairly heterogeneous society--i.e., many cleavages.)
A. The number of parties in the legislature would decrease. B. The number of parties in the legislature would increase. C. The number of parties in the legislature would stay the same. D. There would be no parties or legislature in the system.
______ means that the changes in an agency’s budget from year to year tend to be predictable; usually marginal changes from the status quo.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).