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State tax officials, having had considerable success in persuading delinquent individuals to pay their back taxes through the incentive of reduced penalties, plan to adopt a similar approach in order to collect past due taxes from corporations.

The state tax plan outlined above assumes that

A) federal tax officials will not attempt to collect back taxes in the same manner
B) stiff fines are not the only way to collect past due corporate taxes
C) corporations tend to be delinquent in their taxes for the same length of time that individual taxpayers are
D) past due taxes cannot be collected without a reduction in penalties
E) penalties for delinquent corporations will have to be reduced by the same percentage as were penalties for delinquent individuals

Source: Kaplan test.

OA is B
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by vinay1983 » Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:28 pm
Is it D. Source and OA?
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by theCodeToGMAT » Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:43 pm
I guess its [spoiler]{B}[/spoiler]
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by vinay1983 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:13 am
I do not agree with the OA. It defeats the purpose.Experts have to comment
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by sana.noor » Fri Oct 11, 2013 3:54 am
it must be B why?
state official collected taxes from delinquent individuals by removing penalties. they are approaching they same strategy for corporations. they are doing so because they have experienced that removing penalties actually help them. Conclusion: stiff fines are not the only way to collect past due taxes.
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by rakeshd347 » Fri Oct 11, 2013 4:52 am
vinay1983 wrote:I do not agree with the OA. It defeats the purpose.Experts have to comment
According to kaplan its B. initially I had the same reaction but if you negate vinay it makes sense.