A tax of $0.25 is imposed on each bag of potato chips that is sold. The tax decreases producer surplus by $600 per day, generates tax revenue of $1,220 per day, and decreases the equilibrium quantity of potato chips by 120 bags per day. The tax:
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This question is on Excess burden and deadweight loss of taxation, part of Taxation: incidence and efficiency in Public Economics.
The efficiency cost of a tax beyond the revenue it raises.
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