Given the Following Tax Structure, What Is the Minimum Tax

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Essay

Given the following tax structure, what is the minimum tax that would need to be assessed on Dora to make the tax progressive with respect to average tax rates? What is the minimum tax that would need to be assessed on Dora to make the tax progressive with respect to effective tax rates?

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Definitions:

Perfect Information

A hypothetical market condition in which all participants have access to all relevant information to make fully informed decisions.

Public Goods

Goods that are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, making it difficult to restrict access to their benefits only to those who pay for them.

Collectively Consumed

Products or services that are used or consumed by a group of people simultaneously, such as public goods.

Exclude

To deliberately leave something or someone out of a group, list, or conversation.