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“ Public finance ” course

“ Public finance ” course. First term 2010/2011 Instructor Dr. Mo’een Rajab E.mail: moeenrajab@hotmail.com. Palestine University Finance and business college. Question for Revision (I). 25/12/2010. Section I Mention whether the below statements are true or false:.

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“ Public finance ” course

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  1. “Public finance” course First term 2010/2011 Instructor Dr. Mo’een Rajab E.mail: moeenrajab@hotmail.com Palestine University Finance and business college

  2. Question for Revision (I) 25/12/2010

  3. Section I Mention whether the below statements are true or false: 1- Income redistribution to the poor can be viewed as a public good. 2- When we prevent personal income from falling under certain levels, then we provide them with insurance

  4. 3- The period of recession in 1991 and 1992, in the United States was a high growth period. 4- Income redistribution also can’t provide collective benefits through social stability.

  5. 5- Government action to redistribute income can’t establish uniform standards of eligibility for aid. 6- The major welfare programs for the poor in the United States mainly assist those who cannot work.

  6. 7- Tagging poor children who are not expected to work as eligible for government assistance means that their parents also, will receive assistance. 8- Under the reframed system of income support for the poor in the United States, the status test for eligibility has been revised.

  7. 9- Economists usually classify taxes- in developed countries only- into Direct taxes and Indirect taxes. 10- According to Mill, a Direct tax is really a tax which is paid by a person on whom it is legally imposed and the burden of which cannot be shifted to any other person is called a direct tax.

  8. 11- In the case of indirect taxes, the tax payer is not the tax bearer. 12- Unless we know whether a tax shifted from the immediate tax payer to someone else, we cannot categories it as direct or indirect.

  9. Section IIAnswer the following questions: 1- Many persons who support government efforts to redistribute income do so. Why? 2- What are the result of poverty breeds?

  10. 3- why we rely ingovernment rather than an private charity to provide assistance to the poor? 4- What status test provides?

  11. 5-What arethe conditions of eligibility for cash and other forms of assistance? 6- Define direct tax according to Dalton?

  12. 7- When the tax payer will be the tax bearer? 8- What is the concept of indirect tax?

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