Microeconomics
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Suppose George made $20,000 last year and that he lives in the country of Harmony. The way Harmony levies income taxes, each citizen must pay 10 percent in taxes on their first $10,000 in earnings and then 50 percent in taxes on anything else they might earn. So given that George earned $20,000 last year, his marginal tax rate on the last dollar he earns will be __________ and his average tax rate for his entire income will be _________________. a. 50 percent; 50 percent. b. 50 percent; less than 50 percent. c. 10 percent; 50 percent. d. 10 percent; less than 50 percent.
Suppose that the for every 10% increase in the price of gasoline, consumers
will decrease the quantity demanded by 1%, and suppliers will increase their
supply of gasoline by 9%. Next, suppose that there is a $0.50 per gallon tax on
gasoline, and after the tax quantity exchanged in the market is 15 billion
gallons of gasoline. Given this information, what is the total government
revenue from the tax? What is the consumer and producer tax incidence (how
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Suppose that the U.S. government decides to charge cola producers a tax. Before the tax, 30 billion cases of cola were sold every year at a price of $4 per case. After the tax, 23 billion cases of cola are sold every year; consumers pay $5 per case, and producers receive $2 per case (after paying the tax).
The amount of the tax on a case of cola is $_________ per case. Of this amount, the burden that falls on consumers is $_________ per case, and the burden that falls on producers is $__________ per case.
True or False: The effect of the tax on the quantity sold would have been smaller if the tax had been levied on consumers.
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