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
59
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, the sales tax is on all the following EXCEPT______.
选项
A、clothes
B、desk pads
C、children shoes
D、portable computers
答案
D
解析
是非题型选项A,B,C在第一段第一句中都有提及: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.此处notebooks与desk pads近义;因此D为答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/qjgO777K
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
Althoughthathappenedinthisdevelopedcountrysoundslikesciencefiction,itcouldoccurelsewhereintheworld.
Wateristhegiverand,atthesametime,thetakeroflife.Itcoversmostofthesurfaceoftheplanetweliveonandfeatures
Wateristhegiverand,atthesametime,thetakeroflife.Itcoversmostofthesurfaceoftheplanetweliveonandfeatures
Peoplearestillcomingtotermswiththe_________ofthedisaster.
Thesalesmanalwayshadasmoothanswerwhenacustomeraskedhimaquestion.
Ourjourneywasslowbecausethetrainstopped______atdifferentvillages.
Whenstruckoutfornewlands,however,peopleshouldestablishnewguidelinestoincreasethechanceofprofits,oratleastmi
Inrecentyears,ourcountryiscontinuingtotransformgovernmentfunctionsand______tobuildaclean,diligent,efficientand
OneofmyfavoritehotelsistheHermitageHotelonNewZealand’sSouthIslandwhichIcameacross_________whenIwasclimbing.
AfamilydoctorchargedtheNightHomeService(NHS)morethan£500,000insevenyearsfornightvisitsthathispatientsdidno
随机试题
设A为4阶矩阵,r(A)=2,α1,α2为AX=0的两个线性无关解,β1,β2为AX=b的特解,下列选项中可作为AX=b的通解的是().
设有关系模式R(A,B,C)和S(B,C,D,E),下列关系代数表达式错误的是【】
下列各项中,关于期望值的表述错误的是()
眼球向下转时,下直肌的协同肌是
色甘酸钠作为哮喘的预防性用药其作用机制是
下列总图图例中()表示铁路跨道路。
你到一个新单位,你的上司很平庸。你会如何做?
假定某计算机字长16位,没有Cache,运算器一次定点加法时间等于100ns,配置的磁盘旋转速度为每分钟3000转,每个磁道上记录两个数据块,每一块有8000B,两个数据块之间间隙的越过时间为2ms,主存周期为500ns,存储器总线宽度为16位,总线带宽为
Parentswholackthefinancetosendtheirchildrentoaprivateschoolhavetotoleratethestatesystem.
Accordingtotheprofessor,whyaretidalfencesbetterthantidaldams?Clickon2answers.
最新回复
(
0
)