Economics 9708 · AS & A Level · Taxes and subsidies

Taxes and subsidies — practice question

Which measure would be least likely to enable a household to escape the poverty trap?

  • Achanging a universal benefit to a means-tested benefit
  • Bincreasing the threshold at which income tax is paid
  • Cintroducing a national minimum wage
  • Dreducing the basic rate of income tax

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