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Concept Clarifier: Tax

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Wize University Microeconomics Textbook > Efficiency

CS and PS with Taxes

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Wize University Microeconomics Textbook > Government Interventions in Markets

Tax

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The demand and supply for an unhealthy energy drink are given in the following diagram. Prices are in dollars and quantities are in hundreds of units. The government imposes a $1 tax on the purchase of a unit of this energy drink, paid for by the consumers at the time of the transaction.


Buyers pay
$0.25
tax on each energy drink


Sellers pay
$0.75
tax on each energy drink


Government tax revenue is
$45


Deadweight loss is
$7.50


What are the marginal social benefit and marginal social cost when the tax is imposed?

More CS and PS with Taxes Questions:
Cigarettes have a downward sloping demand and an upward sloping supply curve. When the tax is increased from $4 per pack to $6 per pack, what would happen to the government's tax revenue?
Practice: Deadweight Loss
Yasmine pays Larry $40 per week for housekeeping. The government levies a $5 tax on housekeeping and Larry raises his price to $45. Yasmine continues to hire him once a week at this higher price. What is the change in producer surplus, change in consumer surplus, and deadweight loss?
Suppose you are a politician that wants to tax a product. You are hoping to increase the government's tax revenue as much as possible, while minimizing the deadweight loss. You would prefer to do this on goods with __________ elasticities of demand and __________ elasticities of supply.
The deadweight loss from taxation can be determined by:
Practice: Deadweight Loss
Yasmine pays Larry $40 per week for housekeeping. The government levies a $5 tax on housekeeping and Larry raises his price to $45. Yasmine continues to hire him once a week at this higher price. What is the change in producer surplus, change in consumer surplus, and deadweight loss?
Practice: Tax Burden
The demand and supply for an unhealthy energy drink are given in the following diagram. Prices are in dollars and quantities are in hundreds of units. The government imposes a $1 tax on the purchase of a unit of this energy drink, paid for by the consumers at the time of the transaction.
More Tax Questions:
If the government decides to levy (place) a $3 per unit tax on consumers of a good, it would have the same effect as:
Practice: Tax
If the government decides to levy (place) a $3 per unit tax on consumers of a good, it would have the same effect as:
Practice: Tax Burden
The demand and supply for an unhealthy energy drink are given in the following diagram. Prices are in dollars and quantities are in hundreds of units. The government imposes a $1 tax on the purchase of a unit of this energy drink, paid for by the consumers at the time of the transaction.