首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Nine states and the District of Columbia are doing away with the sales tax on items such as clothes, shoes and even notebooks ov
Nine states and the District of Columbia are doing away with the sales tax on items such as clothes, shoes and even notebooks ov
admin
2012-07-13
30
问题
Nine states and the District of Columbia are doing away with the sales tax on items such as clothes, shoes and even notebooks over the next few weeks, just in time for back-to-school shopping.
Most of the promotions last only a few days, so shoppers will have to act quickly to get a tax break. The tax holidays, which have already expired in two other states, apply to small and large items. For example, the tax break applies to any school supply that costs $ 15 or less in New Mexico. In Massachusetts, it covers most retail purchases of $2,500 or less. Stores may offer additional savings because these events " give retailers an opportunity to have a sale on top of what the state is doing," says Verenda Smith, government affairs associate at the Federation of Tax Administrators.
No industry-wide figures are available about how much consumers save annually from these tax breaks. But Texas estimates that shoppers will save $ 47.4 million in taxes this year, nearly a 3 percent increase from the previous year. Massachusetts says shoppers saved roughly $ 10 million in taxes during its 2005 event.
States that cast aside these promotions when a slow economy pinched state budgets are now reviving them in hopes of stimulating local economies. Some states also believe the gain in
consumer goodwill
helps balance out the loss in tax revenue.
In some cases, tax losses are minimal because serious shoppers don’t stop at clothes and books. "While states give up sales tax, they usually break even on sales-tax collection," says J. Craig Shearman, a vice-president at the National Retail Federation.
Sophie Beckmann, a certified public accountant at A. G. Edwards in St. Louis, says she’ll avoid that temptation by making a list of necessities. On the Missouri resident’s shopping list: notebooks, pencils, glue and three or four outfits for her son, who is entering the fifth grade this month. She plans to pocket any tax savings. " When you start buying more and spending more just because of the savings, then you’re not doing yourself a favor," Beckmann says.
According to the passage, residents in the state of Mississippi saved last year from tax breaks about______.
选项
A、$ 10 million
B、$ 47. 4 million
C、no statistics available
D、nearly a 3 percent increase
答案
C
解析
细节题型见第三段,其中只提到得克萨斯州和马萨诸塞州估计的消费者可能省下的钱,没有提到密西西比州的统计数字;因此C为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/0jgO777K
本试题收录于:
CATTI二级笔译综合能力题库翻译专业资格(CATTI)分类
0
CATTI二级笔译综合能力
翻译专业资格(CATTI)
相关试题推荐
Thissummer,studentdebtreachedarecord$1.5trillionintheUnitedStates.Toputthatinperspective,student-loanborrowe
AstheemblemofTaoism,thesignofTaijiplaysanimportantroleinChineseculture.
FewdevelopmentshavesogreatlyaffectedAmericanlifeastheautomobile.Indeed,itwouldbehardtooverestimateitsimpact.
WhentheBerlinWallbegantobetorndownin1989,fivemillionpeoplewenttoBerlintocelebratethat.
WhenmykidsgocampingwithoutpizzaandTVforaweek,theythinktheyaresufferinggreat______.
Bypromotinga____decision-makingprocess,theprimeministerhasfulfilledhispromisetocultivateacollectiveleadershipst
InanuncriticalAugust11,1997,WorldNewsTonightreporton"diamagnetictherapy",aphysicaltherapistexplainedthat"magne
A、Businesspeople.B、Elite.C、Immigrants.D、Peopleinthecities.B题干:最初殖民时期的报纸是为谁设计的?根据原文“Earlycolonialnewspapersweredesign
A、comfortablebutexpensiveB、hardbutcheapC、comfortableandcheapD、hardandexpensiveD事实细节的找寻和判断;根据题干专有名词可定位到原文相关信息Peoplew
Rockclimbingisanactivityinwhichparticipantsclimbup,downoracrossnaturalrockformationsorartificialrockwalls.Th
随机试题
A、IgAB、IgMC、IgDD、IgEE、IgG各类Ig特点分别是:局部抗体的作用
图(a)滤波器的幅频特性如图(b)所示,当ui=ui2=sinl00tV时,输出uo=uo1,当ui=ui2=sin104tV时,输出uo=uo2,那么,可以算出()。
按热稳定校验接地装置接地线的最小截面时,对直接接地系统,流过接地线的电流可使用:()
关于市场预测方法的说法,正确的有()
用于度量各种金融资产之间收益相互关联程度的统计指标是()。
将号码分别为1、2、……6的6个小球放入一个袋中,这些小球仅号码不同,其余完全相同。首先,从袋中摸出一个球,号码为a;放回后,再从此袋摸出一个球,其号码为b,则使不等式a-2b+2>0成立的事件发生的概率为:
某房地产公司分别以80万元人民币的相同价格出售两套房屋。一套房屋以盈利20%的价格出售,另一套房屋以盈利30%的价格出售。那么该房地产公司从中获利约为()。
(2019年吉林)《初学记·鸟赋》云:“雏既壮而能飞兮,乃衔食而反哺。”其所描写的鸟是()。
Youwillhearapartofaconversationbetweentwomanagersfromdifferentcompanies,awomancalledElizabethandamancalled
Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteacompositiononthetopic:TheBestWaytoStayHealthy.Youshouldwriteat
最新回复
(
0
)