Illustrates the key terms of excise tax?
Terms of excise tax:
a. Tax incidence
• Who bears the load of the tax?
b. Excess burden or Deadweight loss
• Taxes inflict additional costs, over and above the money really paid in taxes, into the form of inefficiencies, that occur since the tax discourages equally beneficial transactions
c. Tax revenue = Area of Wedge as by height and width