Instructions
Only provide your opinions when specifically called for. In all other cases your answer(s) should rely on the text and module materials and not on the internet, showing your capacity to apply the appropriate economic principles and concepts correctly.
1. What are the primary principles of taxation?
2. Describe the percentage of the tax taken on regressive, proportional, and progressive taxes in relation to income.
3. What is a sales tax and is it a regressive, proportional, or progressive tax?
Grading Rubric
| Criteria | Not Evident
0% |
Developing
55% |
Proficient
80% |
Distinguished
100% |
Weight |
| Recognition of primary principles of Taxation | 30 | ||||
| Recognition of % of tax taken on progressive, regressive and proportional taxes | 30 | ||||
| Correctly defines a sales tax and identifies it as progressive,Regressive or proportional | 30 | ||||
| Articulation of response (citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas.) | 10 |
