Question

Assume the demand curve is more elastic than the supply curve for the product: chewing tobacco. If the government wants to tax chewing tobacco by requiring suppliers to pay $1 per can of tobacco they sell, how will the burden of the tax be borne?

Answer 1

Answer:

The producers will bear more of the tax than the consumer because the supply curve is more inelastic than the demand curve.

Explanation:

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The consumers will bear more of the tax than the producer because the supply curve is more inelastic than the demand curve.

The producers will bear the entirety of the tax because the supply curve is more inelastic than the demand curve.

The producers will bear more of the tax than the consumer because the supply curve is more inelastic than the demand curve.

The consumers will bear the entirety of the tax because producers set the price.

The producers will bear the entirety of the tax because the government imposed the tax directly on them.

Demand is elastic if a small change in price has a greater effect on the quantity demanded.

Supply is elastic if a small change in price has a greater effect on the quantity supplied.

The more elastic demand or supply is the more sensitive quantity demanded or supplied to changes in price.

The burden of tax refers to who pays the tax.

If demand is more elastic that supply it means that demand is more price sensitive to changes in price that supply.

This means that if a tax is imposed which increases the price of the good, quantity demand would change more than quantity supplied.

Therefore, the burden of tax is borne by the party with the less elasticity.

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