Why Is It Not Appropriate to Compare the Cost of Administering

Multiple Choice

Why is it not appropriate to compare the cost of administering a local real property tax with the cost of administering the federal individual income tax?

A) Federal employees are better paid than are local employees.
B) Local employees are often supported by federal grant funds raised by the income tax.
C) Federal income tax revenue is larger than local real property tax revenue.
D) The costs of collecting the individual income tax must include compliance cost as well as administrative cost; there is no significant compliance cost for the typical real property tax.