QUESTIONS: 1) According to the pie chart, what is the largest source of revenue (money) for the federal government?
2) What are property taxes and how are they determined?
3) What are sales taxes?
4) What are excise taxes and what are they primarily used for?
5) What is a regressive tax?
6) Give an example of a regressive tax?
7) What is a proportional or "flat tax"?
8) What is a progressive tax?
9) Give an example of a progressive tax?
10) What type of tax do local-city governments rely most heavily on?

The amberssen specialty company is a chain of twelve retail stores that sell a variety of imported gift items, gourmet chocolates, cheeses, and wines in the toronto area. amberssen has an is staff of three people who have created a simple but effective information system of networked point-of-sale registers at the stores and a centralized accounting system at the company head- quarters. harry hilman, the head of amberssens is group, has just received the following memo from bill amberssen, sales director (and son of amberssen’s founder). harry—it’s time amberssen specialty launched itself on the internet. many of our competitors are already there, selling to customers without the expense of a retail storefront, and we should be there too. i project that we could double or triple our annual revenues by selling our products on the internet. i’d like to have this ready by - giving, in time for the prime holiday gift-shopping season. bill after pondering this memo for several days, harry scheduled a meeting with bill so that he could clarify bill’s vision of this venture. using the standard con- tent of a system request as your guide, prepare a list of questions that harry needs to have answered about this project.