Answer:
1. The amount of tax on a bottle of wine is $4.
2. The tax burden on consumers is $1.
3. The tax burden on producers is $3.
4. The effect on the tax on the quantity sold would have been smaller if the tax had been levied on producers.
False.
Explanation:
a) Data and Calculations:
Before the tax, the number of bottles of wine sold every year at $7 per bottle = 35 billion bottles
After the tax, the number of bottles of wine sold every year at $8 per bottle = 29 billion bottles
Therefore, there is a reduction of 6 billion bottles as a result of the increased price of $1 per bottle (from $7 to $8).
The price received by producers = $4 per bottle
Therefore, there is a total tax of $4 ($8 - $4)
Consumers bear $1 ($8 - $7)
Producers bear $3 ($7 - $4)
The effect of the tax would have still increased the price to $8 or more. Thus, if the tax had been levied on producers, the quantity of bottles sold would have reduced drastically.
