A. the government often uses excise taxes, called "sin taxes," to manipulate consumption of cigarettes. draw and label the shift from a tax. identify the new price consumers pay, the price producers receive, the amount of tax revenue consumers pay, and the amount of tax revenue producers pay. lastly, explain why it is unlikely that this tax will significantly reduce cigarette consumption.

Which statement is true about the elements of the interface of a presentation program? a. the status bar appears at the top of the page and displays options to style your slides. b. the tool bar displays the thumbnails of your presentation slides in the order they will appear in the presentation. c. rulers indicate the margins, tabs, and indents in a presentation slide. d. the document area provides a list of commands to create, format, and edit presentations.

Jose recently died with a probate estate of $900,000. he was predeceased by his wife, guadalupe, and his daughter, lucy. he has two surviving children, pete and fred. jose was also survived by eight grandchildren, pete’s three children, naomi, daniel, nick; fred’s three children, heather, chris and steve; and lucy’s two children, david and rachel. jose’s will states the following “i leave everything to my three children. if any of my children shall predecease me then i leave their share to their heirs, per stirpes.” which of the following statements is correct? (a) under jose’s will rachel will receive $150,000. (b) under jose’s will chris will receive $150,000. (c) under jose’s will nick will receive $100,000. (d) under jose’s will pete will receive $200,000.

On january 15, the end of the first biweekly pay period of the year, north company’s payroll register showed that its employees earned $32,000 of sales salaries. withholdings from the employees’ salaries include fica social security taxes at the rate of 6.2%, fica medicare taxes at the rate of 1.45%, $3,000 of federal income taxes, $772 of medical insurance deductions, and $260 of union dues. no employee earned > $7,000 in this first period. prepare the journal entry to record north company’s january 15 (employee) payroll expenses and liabilities.