Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · Supply-side policy

Supply-side policy — practice question

(a)[2]

Explain what economic growth means.

(b)[3]

Explain why cutting tax rates is treated as a supply-side policy.

(c)[4]

Analyse, with the aid of a diagram, how the supply of labour might change as the marginal rate of income tax falls.

(d)[4]

Explain, using the information above, what would happen to government revenue if tax rates were reduced, and the response to marginal tax rate changes is greater than one.

(e)[7]

Discuss whether the evidence from the data shows that economic growth is improved by tax reductions.

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