Tax review questions

1. What type of tax does the Federal government get most of their money from?  What about State government? What about Local government?

2. What is an excise tax?

3. What is cyclical unemployment?  Give an example.

4. What is seasonal unemployment?  Give an example.

5. What is a progressive tax mean? Who does it impact the most?

6.  What are the four characteristics of a good tax?  Explain the meaning of each.

7. What is a customs tax? Is it progressive?

8. What is structural unemployment?  Give an example.

9. What is a regressive tax? What types of taxes are regressive?

10. What are the characteristics of an expansion period?

11. What are the characteristics of a contraction period?

12. When does cyclical unemployment take place?

13. How do frictional and structural unemployment differ?

14. What are the 3 main indicators of the economy?

15. What is Gross Domestic Product?

16.  Explain how proportional taxes work.

17. What form do you fill out when you get a job?  How is the form used?

18. What is a W2?

19. Why do you fill out a 1040?

20. What is pay-as-you-earn taxation?