How Is the Incidence of a Tax Determined

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Multiple Choice

How is the incidence of a tax determined

• A)It is not required when one is only interested in issues of equity.
• B)It is identical to the determination of legal liability for a tax.
• C)It requires one to evaluate where the tax burden eventually falls.
• D)It is solely determined by conditions of the "flypaper theory" of taxation.

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