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ECON1000 - Principles of Economics 1 | S1 21/22 Time left 0:13:59 A tax is imposed on producers of a good. For a given supply curve, the more price elastic the demand for the product, the greater the tax incidence on uestion 16 t yet Swered ked out of Select one: a. producers.. b. the tax payer. C. consumers. O d. both consumers and producers equally. page Next page
Chapter1: Making Economics Decisions
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Elasticity measures the responsiveness of change in quantity due to change in price.
When tax is imposed on sellers, price increases and how much it increases, depends on relative elasticities of demand and supply.
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