Tax Systems

Q.

A tax of Rs. 100 on the sale of every car is:

1. Proportional tax

2. Progressive tax

3. Lump-sum tax

4. Direct tax

Q.

A consumer at the store purchases a new vacuum cleaner. At checkout, that consumer will have to pay an additional tax on that purchase- a sales tax. What type of tax is a sales tax?

1. Keynesian Tax

2. Personal Income tax

3. Proportional tax

4. Direct tax

Q.

If people with higher incomes pay higher taxes, the system is called:

1. Value Added Tax

2. Progressive Tax

3. Sales Tax

4. Regressive Tax

Q.

A progressive tax is one which:

1. falls most heavily on the less well-off members of society

2. takes an increasing proportion of income as income rises

3. is levied on income and wealth

4. is levied on expenditure

Q.

Progressive tax is a tax which is:

1. Charged at a decreasing rate when income of the individual increases

2. Charged at an increasing rate when income of the individual increases

3. A fixed percentage of an individual income

4. None of these

Q.

Regressive tax is that which is:

1. Charged at an increasing rate when income of the individual increases

2. Charged at a decreasing rate when income of the individual increases

3. Relatively a low percentage of an individual's income

4. None of these

Q. The vernier scale used for measurement has a positive zero error of $0.2\text{mm}$. If while taking a measurement it was noted that $0$ on the vernier scale lies between $8.5\text{cm}$ and $8.6\text{cm}$, vernier coincidence is $6$, then the correct value of measurement is ________$\text{cm}$.

$($Least count $=0.01\text{cm})$

1. $8.36\text{cm}$
2. $8.58\text{cm}$
3. $8.54\text{cm}$
4. $8.56\text{cm}$

Q. A student measured the length of a rod and wrote it as $3.50\text{cm}$. Which instrument did he use to measure it ?

1. A screw gauge have $50$ divisions in the circular scale and pitch as $1\text{mm}$
2. A screw gauge having $100$ divisions in the circular scale and pitch as $1\text{mm}$.
3. A meter scale
4. A vernier calliper where the $10$ divisions in vernier scale matches with $9$ division in main scale and main scale has $10$ divisions in $1\text{cm}$.

Q. The smallest division on the main scale of a Vernier calipers is $0.1\text{cm}$. Ten divisions of the Vernier scale correspond to nine divisions of the main scale. The figure below on the left shows the reading of this calipers with no gap between its two jaws. The figure on the right shows the reading with a solid sphere held between the jaws. The correct diameter of the sphere is

Q. The smallest division on the main scale of a Vernier calipers is $0.1\text{cm}$. Ten divisions of the Vernier scale correspond to nine divisions of the main scale. The figure below on the left shows the reading of this calipers with no gap between its two jaws. The figure on the right shows the reading with a solid sphere held between the jaws. The correct diameter of the sphere is

1. $3.07\text{cm}$
2. $3.15\text{cm}$
3. $3.17\text{cm}$
4. $3.11\text{cm}$