How Can We Anticipate the Proportion of a Newly Imposed

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Multiple Choice

How can we anticipate the proportion of a newly imposed unit excise tax that consumers will pay?

• A) Consumers will pay most of the tax whenever their demand for a product is relatively unresponsive to price changes.
• B) Consumers will always pay 100 percent of an excise tax.
• C) Consumers will pay most of the tax whenever their demand for the product is very price sensitive.
• D) Since producers always pay 100 percent of an excise tax, we know consumers will not pay any of the tax.

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