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State Tax Plan

by singhsa » Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:11 pm
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

1. federal tax officials will not attempt to collect back taxes in the same manner
2. stiff fines are not the only way to collect past due corporate taxes
3. corporations tend to be delinquent in their taxes for the same length of time that individual taxpayers are
4. past due taxes cannot be collected without a reduction in penalties
5. penalties for delinquent corporations will have to be reduced by the same percentage as were penalties for delinquent individuals

Pls explain

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by pradeepkaushal9518 » Wed Sep 22, 2010 12:05 am
1.out of scope
2.correct since they could not collect tax from corporation by putting fines
3.time is not a matter of concern
4.there are other methods also
5.% for indivisible and corporation is very different indivisiual may have in thousands as corporations have in lacks
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by reply2spg » Wed Sep 22, 2010 6:46 am
B is correct, just negate B, entire argument will become invalid
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by tanviet » Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:25 pm
Argument is simple and answer choices are simple too. We do not spend a lot of time to understand argument and answer choices as the case with long and complex argument.

However, this is hard. Unlike SUPPORTER ASSUMPTION, which can be realize when we read answer choices, DEFENDER ASSUMPTION is hard to realize and so requires us to negate each answer choice to find the defender assumption. This process of negation takes more time than the process of finding supporter assumption.

Mode to tack : for assumption question, when we finish reading 5 answer choices and see nothing, it is defender assumption question and we have to think of negation of each answer choice.

logic of CR is simple to understand the explanation. But the problem is that we find out the method of attacking for each kind of question so that we do not miss the hard questions next time. I wish you to share your ideas. I am highly interested in discussion of gmatprep questions because gmatprep is official source of hard questions.

the concept of defender assumption and supporter assumption is developed in CRITICAL REASONING BIBLE book. you can get it in a 1 hour of reading.
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by GmatKiss » Wed Oct 05, 2011 10:25 pm
IMO B, D is extreme!
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by tanviet » Thu Oct 13, 2011 9:01 pm
members, pls, discuss

it is clear that B is correct. But I want to discuss why many persons choose D. in fact, D makes me uncomfortable.

I see many questions in gmatprep, which contain answer choice like D and which makes me uncomfortable.

The test maker fully understand that he/she make us hard with D and I want to understand the way test maker make D. I want to know clue/method to realize the wrongness of D so that next time we can be easy with D.

D makes us think that negation of D weakens the argument but the negation dose not. Is this what the test maker want?
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