Using your answers from the previous table, calculate the tax burden that falls on buyers and on sellers, respectively, and calculate the price elasticity

of demand and supply over the relevant ranges using the midpoint method. Enter your results in the following table.

Tax Burden

The tax burden falls more heavily on the side of the market that is

elastic.The following graph shows the weekly market for handbags in some hypothetical economy. Suppose the government levies a tax of $$20\mathrm{.}30$ per bag.

The tax places a wedge between the price buyers pay and the price sellers receive.