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Specific taxes
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Gender pay gap
80% of UK companies and public sectors organisations pay women less than men.
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Specific taxes are indirect taxes which have a fixed amount of tax added on to the market price of a good or service. Graphically, this will raise the supply curve vertically by the amount of the tax, and the new curve will be parallel to the original curve.
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