Microeconomics: Principles, Applications, and Tools (8th Edition)

Published by Prentice Hall
ISBN 10: 0-13294-886-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-13294-886-9

Chapter 6 - Market Efficiency and Government Intervention - Exercises - 6.5 Who Really Pays Taxes? - Page 150: 5.5

Answer

consumers

Work Step by Step

When the demand is inelastic, a price increase will have little impact on quantity sold. The supplier can more easily pass a tax along to the consumer in the form of a price increase,
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