<u>Answer:</u>
Excise tax :$0.30 tax on a gallon gasoline
Consumption tax : 20% tax on wages earned
Income tax : 9% tax on the sale of luxuries
<u>Explanation:</u>
Excise tax are the taxes charged to individuals on purchase of certain goods. Excise taxes are included with the price of the product. One of the major excise tax is charged on the gasoline for vehicles.
Consumption tax are the indirect taxes that are charged on usage of goods and services. They are collected in the form of sales tax and value added tax.
Income tax is the tax collected by the government for earning money through business or work.
Answer:
The correct answer is letter "B": The firm be able to charge the low-value customers a lower price than the higher-value customers.
Explanation:
Price discrimination is the practice by which producers charge different prices to different consumers based on factors such as<em> age, income or location</em> to mention a few. This differentiation in prices is always justified by producers with one of those factors otherwise the approach would be considered illegal.
Direct price discrimination<em> is carried out when the firm charges lower prices to an unfavored sector of the market keeping the regular price in sectors where income is higher.</em>
The areas are an example of <span>a decrease in the price and an increase in the quantity of the firm's output.
The green areas would decrease the amount of money that the company need to handle waste of production, and social responsibility related cost, which would decrease the price and increase the firm's output.</span>
Answer:
These questions are incomplete since the article relating to Hologen company is not attached. However, I would answer them this way.
Explanation:
1) A floating rate bond has a shorter duration; almost zero and it has lower sensitivity to interest rates compared to a fixed rate bond.This means that the former has a lower interest rate risk. Investors tend to demand floating rate bonds when they expect future interest rates to rise because their prices would be close to their par values as their interest rates would also increase. On the other hand, fixed bond's interest rates are inversely related to their prices.
2)
For an issuing company, borrowing money floating rates terms could be riskier for cashflow management purposes . Every time interest rates increases, it means that the company would pay higher interests to lenders which could hurt its profitability. The fluctuations could also negatively affect future financial planning unlike issuing fixed rate bonds whose coupon payments are constant hence decreasing the volatility of earnings.
