Taxation

Taxation is a part of economics. No state can live without it because the money the population of the country pays in the form of taxes makes the main part of the state budget. With the help of taxation the state can pay wages to its employees, pensions to senior citizens; it takes care of children’s education. Taxation gives the chance to build roads, hospitals etc.

The first taxes appeared in England in the period of industrial revolution when building roads and transport systems became the necessity. The first tax was called “road tax”. Becoming the necessity it soon made the main item of expenditures on state development.

The main problem of taxation is how much the tax must be and should it be the same for different social groups of population. Having different income people can’t pay the same tax. This opinion of the leading economists is being strongly discussed in many countries. They think rich people having much money and property should pay more while the poor shouldn’t pay any or at least much less. Their opponents say it might be unjust because some people don’t want to work and they got used to live on social grants which are paid to them from taxes taken from those who work.

Listening to the lecture the students made notes* because they knew that they would be discussing the subject later. Expressing their own point of view* has become a good tradition of Mr. Brown’s tutoring. Of course, the main part of the discussion will touch the problem of the tax sum and its distribution among different social groups.

*Notes to the text:

to make notes – делать пометки (записи);

a point of view – точка зрения.

Exercise 4. Using the text fill in the proper preposition where necessary:

1. She could quickly pick up the students’ slang … the help of her roommates.

2. The skill to contact … people is necessary for any manager.

3. People often face economic difficulties … the period of reforming.

4. Some most talented students can get education grants paid … them by sponsors.

5. Listening … classical music made Dolores happy.

Exercise 5. Choose the proper word to fill in the blank:

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