BACHELOR OF COMMERCE (BCOM) UNIT: INTRODUCTION TO MACRO-ECONOMICS QUESTION: MICRO-ECONOMICS AND MACRO-ECONOMICS INTRODUCTION Economics is the foundation of all commercial activity and comprises two areas: microeconomics and macroeconomics. Macroeconomics is concerned with the big picture‚ for example‚ the national economy and gross domestic product. By contrast‚ microeconomics is concerned with the small picture and focuses on theories of supply and demand. Microeconomics is very important
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MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS MEANING OF MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS Managerial economics‚ used synonymously with business economics‚ is a branch of economics that deals with the application of microeconomic analysis to decision-making techniques of businesses and management units. It acts as the via media between economic theory and pragmatic economics. Managerial economics bridges the gap between ’theoria’ and ’pracis’. The tenets of managerial economics have been derived from quantitative techniques such as regression
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Tax Preparing CPAs and Issues Related to Client Confidentiality The case talks about John Jones who is a CPA with 20 years of experience in preparing tax returns for clients. In 2013‚ Jones prepared a list of taxpayers that contained some specific information‚ which he could use to get in touch with those taxpayers for providing them with information regarding business and economic conditions‚ and also use these info for tax education and analysis purposes. As a result‚ the main objective of this
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International Tax and Public Finance‚ 7‚ 177–194‚ 2000. c 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Printed in The Netherlands. Decomposing Revenue Effects of Tax Evasion and Tax Structure Changes ARINDAM DAS-GUPTA* oldmonk87@yahoo.com Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics‚ B MCC Road‚ Pune 411004‚ Maharashtra‚ India IRA N. GANG gang@economics.rutgers.edu Department of Economics‚ Rutgers University‚ New Brunswick‚ NJ 08901-1248 USA Abstract This paper proposes a method for evaluating the impact
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Effectiveness of ‘fat tax: The effectiveness of the fat tax Elasticity: when consumer is changing pattern of buying according to the change in price‚ eg. When its espcial they tend to buy more and if the price rises they don’t want a lot and if they don’t need they don’t even buy it. Inelasticity: when consumers buy products that they need the most and even if the price rise they buy it. Basic needs products‚ and if the prise is low they don’t buy more than what they need. The link between
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The Sin Tax Bill (Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago) The Philippines has scandalously low taxes on two commodities that have been proven killers of individuals‚ destroyers of families and threats to national economic security: cigarette and spirits. At present‚ 25 million Filipino youth who are 18 years old are smokers. If they continue to smoke‚ half of them will die. Santiago is the principal author of Senate Bill No. 3249‚ “An Act restructuring the excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco products
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Equal Taxation Tax rates in America have been changed and reformed to try and meet the needs of the current economy‚ or to make a politicians look good. Recent questions have been asked about whether we should reform the entire style of tax rates in America. Future generations are going to feel the burden or benefit from tax choices we make now because it takes time for things of this magnitude to take place. Also it is a possibility that the future generation may need new tax style because of
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and undoubtedly‚ rising population is one of the most worried issues at the moment. The governments discourages people to have more children in order to maintain the living standard and save resources and the nation from poverty and economic fall by charging tax more tax. Looking into the pages of history‚ we would see that The United Nations declared ’Five Billion Day’ in the mid 1987 and by the the end of 2012‚ UN figures that global population hits 7 billion. An astounding 40% growth just took
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ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX ALTERNATIVE MINIMUM TAX The alternative minimum tax (AMT) is an income tax imposed by the United States federal government on individuals‚ corporations‚ estates and trusts. AMT is imposed at a nearly flat rate on the adjusted amount of taxable income above a certain threshold (also known as exemption). Note that this exemption is substantially higher than the exemption from regular income tax. Regular income tax is adjusted for
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The Value-Added Tax: Is It Good for the United States? Michael D. Cobb BUS490 Business Policy Professor: Robert Brown May 29‚ 2011 The individual federal income tax system used in our country is currently extremely complicated. It is so complicated that the tax code started with about 400 pages long in 1913 to over 70k pages long today (CCH‚ 2010). It benefits higher income individuals leaving those that are at or below the poverty line in a struggle. Our government
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