Economics 0455 · IGCSE · Fiscal policy

Fiscal policy — practice question

Income tax in a country provides every individual with an initial tax-free allowance. Any income above this allowance is then taxed at higher rates as people’s incomes increase. Which alteration to this income tax would make it regressive?

  • Adecreasing the lowest rate of tax
  • Bdecreasing the tax-free income allowance
  • Cincreasing the tax-free income allowance
  • Dincreasing the top rate of tax

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