plumiGovernment income and expenditure: AQA GCSE Economics questions
AQA GCSE Economics past-paper questions on 3.2.1.2 Government income and expenditure, 2020–2025, with mark schemes and examiner’s reports where available.
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All 14 questions on Government income and expenditure, as a list
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q14.1 (2 marks): 1 4 . 1 Using Table 3, calculate the budget balance as a percentage of GDP to one decimal place. Tick one box to indicate whether it is a surplus or deficit. Sh
- June 2025, Paper 2, Q20 (3 marks): Education 600 Welfare 1 200 All other government spending combined 300 Total government spending 3 600 Use Table 4 to complete the pie chart to show the proport
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q11 (2 marks): 1 1 State two examples of indirect taxes used in the UK. [2 marks]
- June 2024, Paper 2, Q12 (2 marks): 1 2 Explain what is meant by regressive taxation. [2 marks]
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q16 (2 marks): 1 6 State two examples of direct taxes used in the UK. [2 marks]
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q19.1 (2 marks): 1 9 . 1 A person earns an annual income of £35 000 from working. Using Table 4, calculate the amount of income tax this person pays. Show your working. [2 marks
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q19.2 (2 marks): 1 9 . 2 Explain what is meant by a progressive tax. [2 marks]
- June 2023, Paper 2, Q20 (3 marks): Use Table 5 to complete the pie chart on the opposite page to show the proportions of total tax revenue collected for each of the following taxes: • income tax
- June 2022, Paper 2, Q2 (1 mark): Which of the following is an indirect tax? [1 mark]
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q1 (1 mark): A budget deficit is best described as which of the following? [1 mark]
- November 2021, Paper 2, Q7 (1 mark): Which of the following is a direct tax? [1 mark]
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q11 (2 marks): 1 1 State one example of a direct tax and one example of an indirect tax, both used in the UK. [2 marks]
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q22 (2 marks): 2 2 Define progressive taxation. [2 marks]
- November 2020, Paper 2, Q23 (3 marks): 2 3 A person earns an annual income of £28 000 from working in 2019–20. Using Table 4 in Item A, calculate this person’s income after tax. Show your working. [3
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