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I. Answer the following questions:

  1. What did you learn about income tax in the first lines of the text?

  2. What usually happens before tax is payable?

  3. How is tax levied as income rises up?

  4. What is a marginal rate and why is it important?

  5. How have governments tried to simplify income taxes?

  6. What is a modern trend in taxation?

  7. What is the basic qualitative difference in what income is liable to tax?

  8. What is a global approach to taxation?

  9. What is a territorial system of tax?

  10. What are the advantages of PAYE?

  11. When can’t the PAYE system operate?

  12. What advantage has income tax over local tax on property, sales or a flat-rate head tax?

II. Find in the text and translate into Russian:

Avoiding payment; to tax on the total; additional tax; a final top rate; a levy on wealth; a global approach to taxation; tax on property values; to devise any tax; flat-rate tax; marginal rate of tax; a wide range of income; to simplify income taxes; a basic qualitative difference; to deduct tax before salary is paid.

III. Find in the text and write down English equivalents for the following Russian phrases:

Налог на доходы от заработка; устанавливать ряд льгот; выделять необлагаемую налогом сумму дохода; налог собирается по восходящей шкале; получать подоходные налоги без вычета; облагаться налогом по одной ставке; товары первой необходимости; быть свободным от косвенных налогов; налогооблагаемый доход; подлежать налогообложению; налоговые органы; декларировать доходы; иметь сбережения в оффшорной зоне; взимать налог; подавать налоговую форму; налог с продаж.

IV. Find synonyms from (b) below:

  1. liable to, main, regard, appear, devise impose, entire, financial year, salary skill, deduct, every year:

  2. total, consider, basic, develop, subject to, originate, levy, efficiency, annually, take away, tax year, wages.

V. Find antonyms to the words in the text:

tax-free; progressive; flat rate, decreasing; global approach; the lowest earners; to make complex; direct; obligatory; luxury; unpopular.

VI. Choose correct prepositions and make up sentences:

  1. to pay tax on / from income;

  2. to levy taxes at / with one rate;

  3. to make allowances on / for a taxation;

  4. to tax smb after / on the total;

  5. to be liable at / to tax;

  6. to be available to / for people.

VII. Fill each gap with a suitable word from the box:

- savings - income - lump-sum

- marginal - investments - flat-rate head tax

- particular - obvious - regressive

- allowances - increasing - tax collectors

- additional

  1. The income becomes liable to tax in that … financial year.

  2. An individual may have … offshore, or dividends from … .

  3. Some workers may have difficulty in finding a … once a year.

  4. … is only taxed in the country when it is transferred there.

  5. PAYE has been adopted by an … number of countries.

  6. Employers effectively become unpaid … .

  7. A … is levied on earners and non-earners alike.

  8. Taxes on income are the … taxes.

  9. Tax-payers often have some … fixed by the state.

  10. This tax in contrast to progressive income tax, is … .

  11. An … tax is levied after the end of the financial year.

  12. The highest rate paid by an individual is called a … rate.