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The primary reason we're eliminating A is that, if anything, this answer would weaken the Mayor's plan that the urban planner seems to be in favor of. The mayor wants to charge businesses on their property rather than their income, so online businesses would no longer have to pay anything under the new tax code, which would certainly result in a loss in tax revenue! While the conclusion is technically attacking the council member's argument, their argument is against the mayor. Since our urban planner is objecting to their objection, an element of their conclusion is that it is at least lightly defending the mayor. If anything, this answer choice therefore would HURT the urban planner.
We choose D because it is the only answer choice that, when negated, tears the argument apart. That said, I think the language of this clearly non-official question is far less precise than the real writers would accept. Forget the typo in B and the subject-verb disagreement in A (both of which would never fly), but choice D also does a sloppy job moving from "income or profits" or "business income" used in the passage to "average annual growth rate percentages" in the answer choice. Like, growth rate of what?? The GMAT writers would never let this fly - growth rate in terms of market share, growth rate in terms, of profits, revenues, number of employees, etc? We're supposed to assume that this means income or profit, but in my opinion, that's just sloppy question writing.
But, let's imagine that the answer choice was actually GMAT-like:
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Then this is clearly the assumption. Because if the value of taxable property has NOT increased by at least as great as the value of taxable income, then Dismaston would be losing money!
Hope this helps!
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