Work out how one country's business tax level differs from the average of five others.
AQA · 7136 / 7135
Fiscal policy comes up in 23 questions across the AQA A Level and AS past papers (7136 / 7135), worth 249 marks between them. They run from 2020 to 2023 and appear on A Level Paper 2, A Level Paper 3.
Tariffs run from 1 to 25 marks. The commonest instructions are Multiple choice (10), Using the data (4), Evaluate (3). Specification points covered: 4.2.5.1, 4.2.5.2.
Work out how one country's business tax level differs from the average of five others.
Diagram question on why rapid expansion of output can push public finances into surplus.
Assess whether raising business taxation will harm Ireland's overall economic performance.
Identify the job of the watchdog scrutinising public finances.
Sum yearly deficits to find the rise in accumulated borrowing.
Should Sri Lanka reduce public spending to bring down its debt? Justify, using the extracts.
Evaluate whether state intervention is the best route to strengthening Britain's productive capacity.
Choose the budgetary measure that would contract national output.
Select the supply-side measure that cuts natural unemployment.
Use chart data to show one country facing greater borrowing difficulties than another in a given year.
Diagram question on how cuts in state spending can cost jobs in private firms.
Evaluate whether a growing stock of accumulated government borrowing harms a country.
Identify the accurate claim about what these measures can affect.
How a state could fund its spending plans while shrinking accumulated borrowing.
Evaluate whether deregulating labour markets along free-market lines helps Britain's economy.
Explain what might cause the government's annual borrowing to shrink.
Judge whether cutting state borrowing matters more than narrowing the external trade shortfall.
Which fiscal situation would add most to government borrowing accumulated over time.
Which statement correctly describes how average and marginal rates behave under a flat income levy.
Evaluate whether measures aimed at the productive side are the best way to cut joblessness.
Evaluate whether trimming state spending to cut borrowing is both needless and harmful.
Pick the measure that raises capacity rather than boosting spending.
Which demand-side measure a Keynesian would back to revive an economy stuck in prolonged slump.
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