duongthang wrote:GMATGuruNY wrote:imskpwr wrote: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
federal tax officials will not attempt to collect back taxes in the same manner
stiff fines are not the only way to collect past due corporate taxes
corporations tend to be delinquent in their taxes for the same length of time that individual taxpayers are
past due taxes cannot be collected without a reduction in penalties
penalties for delinquent corporations will have to be reduced by the same percentage as were penalties for delinquent individuals
Please post with explanation.
Apply the NEGATION test.
Answer choice
B, negated:
Stiff fines are THE ONLY WAY to collect past due corporate taxes.
If stiff fines are THE ONLY WAY to collect past due corporate taxes, then the plan to REDUCE the fines WILL NOT WORK.
Since the negation of
B trashes the plan,
B is the necessary assumption: WHAT MUST BE TRUE for the plan to work.
The correct answer is
B.
Thank you for the posting.
Normally, I see you prethink an assumption before going to answer choices. Why in this question you do not show the prethinking step.
I do prethinking and find an assumption which is that corporation and individual are similar. Then I go to answer choices but I see no match with the prethinking. in this situation, I apply negation test and realize B.
do you thing that the above steps in my thinking is standard and can applied to many CR questions ? pls advise.
When a CR proposes a PLAN, it assumes that there is NO PROBLEM WITH THE PLAN.
It is unlikely that we will be able to predict EVERY problem that could prevent a plan from working.
An easier and more efficient approach:
Eliminate answer choices that are clearly outside the scope.
Negate the remaining answer choices.
The negation of the correct answer = a PROBLEM that will prevent the plan from working.
The negation of
B gives us just what we need:
STIFF FINES ARE THE ONLY WAY to collect past due corporate taxes.
If stiff fines are THE ONLY WAY to collect past due corporate taxes, then the plan to REDUCE these fines clearly WILL NOT WORK.
The correct answer is
B.
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