Tax incidence refers to who actually pays the tax.
Tax incidence can be divided into 1. formal incidence :the party liable to the tax 2. Informal incidence :party who actually pays the tax,
The tax incidence is decided by the elasticity of demand and supply for a good or service.
the elasticity of demand of the product taxed
The harberger model is the application of the general equilibrium models to tax incidence. The principal assumptions of the models are 1) technology: firm uses capital or labour to produce in each sector 2) behaviour of factor supplies : suppliers of both capital snd labour maximize their total return 3) firms are competitive and maximize thr profits market 4) total factor supplied : total smount of lsbour snd capital are fixed 5) consumer preferences all consumers have identical preferences 6) tax incidence framework.differential tax incidence
Tax incidence (the distribution of the tax burden among the buyers and sellers in a market) depends on the elasticity of demand and supply because elasticity measures the buyer and seller's willingness to leave the market when the prices of goods change. The more elastic demand/supply is, the more buyers/sellers will leave the market when the prices rise.Therefore, the tax burden falls more on the side of the market with the smaller elasticity, because a small elasticity means that more buyers/sellers remain in the market when the prices rise due to their being fewer available alternatives.
the diffusion theory it states that eventually the incidence of a tax will be untraceable and in reality is that it has been diffused by economic activities. the demand and supply theory A tax is shifted through the purchase and sale transactions depending on their elasticity.
If the demand is perfectly elastic in prices (that is, demand falls to zero if the price for consumers is raised even the slightest bit), then the entire tax incidence falls on the producer since the producer would rather face the entire tax burden than lose all his consumers. And if the demand is perfectly inelastic (doesn't change with change in commodity price) then the entire burden falls on the consumers. So higher the price elasticity of demand, higher would be the share of taxes borne by the producer. And higher the price elasticity of supply, lower the share borne by the producer, by similar logic.
Tax incidence is concerned with the tax welfare. Specifically, it analyzes the tax on economic welfare. It's said tax incidence takes the burden of the tax.
The legal incidence is on the person or company who is legally obliged to pay the tax. Effective incidence refers to who actually ends up paying the tax.
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Who actually bears the burden of the tax
what is the incidence of corporate tax in an imperfectly competitive market graphically and mathematically?
The impact of a tax refers to the person who pays it to the government in the first instance. The incidence of a tax refers to the money burden of a tax on the person who ultimately pays it. - MP
the elasticity of demand of the product taxed
Advantage: Progressive taxes attempt to reduce the tax incidence of people with a lower ability-to-pay, as they shift the incidence increasingly to those with a higher ability-to-pay
Amedeo Tagliacozzo has written: 'I sabra del kibbutz' -- subject(s): Kibbutzim, Socialization 'Per una sociologia dell'evasione fiscale' -- subject(s): Income tax, Progressive taxation, Social aspects of Tax incidence, Social classes, Tax deductions, Tax evasion, Tax exemption, Tax incidence
Gregg A Esenwein has written: 'Comparative tax burdens' -- subject(s): Tax incidence
A. J. Stagliano has written: 'Incidence of the Insurance Company Federal Income Tax' 'The incidence of the life insurance company Federal income tax' -- subject(s): Life Insurance, Taxation
Donald Peppard has written: 'Net fiscal incidence in Michigan' -- subject(s): Appropriations and expenditures, Income distribution, Tax incidence