A tax whose impact varies inversely with the income of the person taxed, and poor people have a higher percentage of their income taxed than rich people, is known as a:
a. regressive tax.
b. progressive tax.
c. proportional tax.
d. flat tax.
e. tax holiday.
a
Economics
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