Q2(d) Give the meaning of an indirect tax.
Edexcel · 4EC1
Taxation comes up in 32 questions across the Edexcel International GCSE past papers (4EC1), worth 138 marks between them. They run from 2019 to 2025 and appear on iGCSE Paper 1R, iGCSE Paper 2, iGCSE Paper 2R.
Tariffs run from 1 to 12 marks. The commonest instructions are Identify (MCQ) (7), Assess (6), Explain (4). Specification points covered: 1.2.6, 2.1.2.
Q2(d) Give the meaning of an indirect tax.
Q3(e) Data response: do income tax cuts pull more Italians into employment?
Q2(a) Multiple choice on how the share of income paid in tax behaves under a progressive system.
Q2(d) Give the meaning of a direct tax.
Q3(c) Give the likely effect on productivity of a change in business taxes - Italy case.
Q3(e) Data response: how dependable income tax is as government revenue - Australia case.
Q1(e) Work out total direct tax revenue in GBPbn for February 2023 from the receipts table.
Q2(e) Give one route by which progressive taxation cuts poverty - the US case.
Q1(e) Work out total indirect tax revenue in GBPbn for February 2023 from the receipts table.
Q1(a) Multiple choice on what characterises a progressive tax.
Q2(g) Data response: what higher business taxes cost UK investment.
Q1(e) Work out net pay after income tax from the figures given.
Q3(c) Give one effect of rising unemployment on UK tax revenue.
Q3(e) Data response: whether tax cuts are a good route to lower unemployment - Spain case.
Q1(b) Multiple choice picking the UK progressive tax.
Q1(h) Data response: indirect tax cuts and UK living standards.
Q4(b) Data response: what falling unemployment does to tax revenues - Vietnam case.
Q4(c) Data response: weigh up fuel taxes as environmental protection - Vietnam case.
Q3(a) Multiple choice working total direct tax revenue from the figures given.
Q3(d) Data response: taxation as an environmental safeguard, UK case.
Q2(g) Data response: taxation as a tool for protecting the environment.
Q3(a) Multiple choice working total indirect tax revenue from the figures given.
Q3(b) Multiple choice naming the tax that takes a rising share as income grows.
Q1(e) Work out net pay in euros after deductions.
Q2(e) Give one effect of falling unemployment on tax revenue.
Q1(g) Diagram question: show what removing an indirect tax does to the sustainable fuel market.
Q2(a) Multiple choice naming the type of tax system shown.
Q3(e) Data response: whether lower business taxes actually stimulate investment.
Q1(h) Data response: what cutting direct tax does to living standards - Vietnam case.
Q2(b) Multiple choice naming taxes levied on income, wealth and profit.
Q4(c) Data response: whether more progressive taxation is the best route to less inequality and poverty.
Q3(b) Multiple choice picking the indirect tax.
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