We are all paying economic taxes and we need to understand the functionalities of all these so we can understand and be able to assess that the prices of items and good that we are buying are priced fairly. For a single, tobacco, candy, nail or any tiny object being sold in the market are all tax inclusive. Taxation in economics is when business establishment transfers wealth, in terms of money, to the government. This wealth is then collected and saved by the government and should be used for the welfare and benefits of the people. The dilemma here now is that what happens when the business establishments manipulate economic taxes?
Economic taxes are subdivided into three. We have the Deadweight cost of Tax, the Pigovian Taxes and the Transparency and simplicity. Let us evaluate how these three runs in the economy and affect your lives.
Deadweight Cost of Tax
Deadweight cost of taxation happens when there is a deadweight loss caused by additional economic burden, thus reducing economic efficiency. The cause of this is monopoly pricing (in the case of artificial scarcity), externalities, taxes or subsidies, and binding price ceilings or floors. Monopoly pricing is when a company dictates a price that is way beyond the required price of a specific item. Giving extra subsidy of a specific item which is not needed can conversely say that the consumer is buying the product more than it benefits them. This only means that either way, the resources here are not properly used.
Pigovian Taxes
Pigovian taxes are used to correct what we call negative externalities and turn this into economic efficiency. This can be associated with any public activity that is being added with tax value which is not covered by a private cost. The market outcome may not be efficient and would lead to over-consumption of the product. This market outcome is then corrected by the Pigovian tax. Examples would be taxes include those on polluting fuels (like petrol), taxes on goods which incur public healthcare costs (such as alcohol or tobacco), and charges for existing ‘free’ public goods (like congestion charging) are another possibility.
Transparency and Simplicity
Transparency and simplicity deals with how tax details affect the tax payment of some companies. When there are too much tax details, there would be opportunities for more legal tax avoidance and illegal tax evasion. Some transactions of companies which are not clearly identified and labelled as non- taxable would be a loss for economic efficiency.
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