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Tax on a good levied on buyers
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demand curve shifts left
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tax on a good levied on sellers
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supply curve shifts right
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tax on a good levied on buyers or sellers
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a price wedge, price paid by buyer rises, price received by sellers fall, low quantity sold
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tax burden
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Distributed between producers and consumers/ determined by elasticities of supply and demand
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Tax revenue
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T x Q(quantity of good sold)
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dead weight loss
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fall in total surplus that result from a market distortion such as tax
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inelastic supply
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dead weight loss is small (s)
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elastic supply
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dead weight loss is big (s)
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inelastic demand
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dead weight loss is small (d)
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elastic demand
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dead weight loss is big (d)
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more elastic
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the larger the dead weight loss
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as tax increases
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dead weight loss increases