The table presents the average incomes of the richest 20% of households and the poorest 20% of households in the UK (2015–2016), along with the impact of government taxation and benefits on average income. What conclusion can be drawn from the information in the table?
- AThe effects of direct taxation have affected the rich less than the poor.
- BThe government’s policy achieved income equality across households.
- CThe government redistributed all income taken from the rich to the poor.
- DThe government’s policy reduced the income inequality between the poor and the rich.