Consider perfectly competitive constant cost industry. If the government imposes a taxon consumers of $t per unit, in the long run the tax incidence willa) be split between the consumer and the producers.b) fall exclusively on the producers.c) fall exclusively on the consumers.d) cannot be determined based on the information provided.
Question
Consider perfectly competitive constant cost industry. If the government imposes a taxon consumers of $t per unit, in the long run the tax incidence willa) be split between the consumer and the producers.b) fall exclusively on the producers.c) fall exclusively on the consumers.d) cannot be determined based on the information provided.
Solution
The answer is c) fall exclusively on the consumers.
In a perfectly competitive constant cost industry, producers are price takers, meaning they have no control over the price of the product they sell. When a tax is imposed on consumers, the demand curve shifts downwards by the amount of the tax. In the long run, producers adjust their production to the new demand, but the price they receive remains the same. Therefore, the entire tax incidence falls on the consumers.
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