Specific taxes

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Specific taxes

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.

specific tax diagram

The incidence of a tax

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