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beks73 [17]
3 years ago
6

What factors make tax rules so complicated?

Business
1 answer:
Alik [6]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

Hello!!! erz here ^^

Explanation:

Almost everyone agrees that the current tax system is too complicated, yet almost every year the system gets more complex, not less. Why? Tax simplicity almost always conflicts with other policy goals.

For example, the simplest—and least distorting—tax is a head tax, a fixed-dollar tax on everyone. But a head tax would be unfair, taking no account of differences in the incomes and needs of individuals, families, and businesses.

Most people believe taxes should be fair, conducive to economic prosperity, and enforceable, as well as simple. But even people who agree on these goals often disagree about the relative importance of each. As a result, policies usually represent a balance among competing goals, and simplicity often loses out to other priorities.

For example, most countries tailor tax burdens to individual taxpayers’ characteristics. That can make taxes fairer, but more complex. Income has to be traced from businesses to individuals. Individual characteristics such as marital status and number of dependents, as well as the composition of expenditures or income, have to be reported and documented. These conflicting objectives appear to be especially relevant in the current tax code, where the desire to reduce tax burdens for particular groups have added significant complexity.

Politics compounds the complexity. Interest groups—and thus politicians—support tax subsidies for particular activities. And these targeted subsidies inevitably complicate the tax system by creating distinctions among taxpayers with different sources and uses of income.

The current tax law was not enacted all at once but is a result of numerous provisions added or subtracted in multiple tax bills. Often Congress designs legislation under self-imposed constraints, such as short-term revenue goals or effects on the distribution of tax burdens among income groups. The result is that tax incentives are often designed in complex ways to limit the revenue losses or benefits to high-income taxpayers or to prevent their use by unintended beneficiaries.

Annual reports by the National Taxpayer Advocate have presented proposals for simplifying the tax code, including reforms of education incentives, retirement incentives, child benefits, and the alternative minimum tax.

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1. Analysis of the effect of transactions on the accounting equation:

Assets  = Liabilities + Equity

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To record cash from customers.

b. Debit Cash Account $235,000

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To record cash for service revenue.

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Credit Cash Account $15,600

To record payment for advertising.

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To record subscriptions for services sold.

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Credit Utilities Payable $5,900

To record utilities expense.

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Credit Cash Account $5,100

To record payment on account.

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Beginning Balance       $2,360,000      c. Equipment                   12,000

a. Accounts Receivable       52,250      d. Advertising Expense 15,600

b. Electronic Arts, Inc.        235,000     g. Wages & Salaries     310,000

e. Service Revenue             50,500      i. Accounts Payable          5,100

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                                        <u>2,697,750</u>                                        <u>2,697,750</u>

Balance b/d                     2,355,050

                                     Accounts Receivable

Beginning Balance        152,000           a. Cash                          52,250

e. Service Revenue        <u>50,500</u>           Balance c/d                 <u>150,250</u>

                                      <u>202,500</u>                                              <u>202,500</u>

Balance b/d                    150,250

                                        Supplies

Beginning Balance        19,100          Balance c/d                       24,200

Accounts Payable          <u> 5,100</u>                                                   <u>            </u>

                                     <u>24,200</u>                                                   <u>24,200</u>

Balance b/d                  24,200

                                       Equipment

Beginning Balance       948,000       Balance c/d                       989,900

c. Cash                            12,000

c. Notes Payable            <u>29,900</u>                                                <u>              </u>

                                     <u>989,900</u>                                                <u>989,900</u>

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                                         Land

Beginning Balance    1,920,000

                                      Building

Beginning Balance     506,000

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i. Cash                               5,100         Beginning Balance           109,000

  Balance c/d                <u>109,000</u>         h. Supplies                            <u> 5,100</u>

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                                          Notes Payable (due 2018)

     Balance c/d           109,900           Beginning Balance            80,000

                                    <u>             </u>            c. Equipment                     <u>29,900</u>

                                   <u>109,900</u>                                                      <u>109,900</u>

                                                             Balance b/d                       101,000

                                           Common Stock

                                                              Beginning Balance     2,200,000

                                           Retained Earnings

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4. Trial Balance as at January 31:

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Cash                                  $2,355,050

Accounts Receivable              150,250

Supplies                                    24,200

Equipment                              989,900

Land                                     1,920,000

Building                                  506,000

Advertising expense                15,600

Utilities Expense                        5,900

Utilities Payable                                                 $5,900

Wages & Salaries                  310,000

Service Revenue                                             336,000

Notes Payable                                                  109,900

Accounts Payable                                            109,000

Unearned Revenue                                         152,000

Common Stock                                            2,200,000

Retained Earnings         <u>                    </u>           <u>3,364,100</u>

Total                               <u>$6,276,900 </u>        <u>$6,276,900</u>

Explanation:

a) Note: the adjustment of the Utilities could have been eliminated to produce the same result, with totals reduced by $5,900.

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