Practice mode Income Inequality

What is tax shifting?

Correct answer C. When households can alter their behaviour and do something to avoid paying a tax

Explanation

Tax shifting happens when people respond to a tax by changing what they buy or do, moving the burden onto others. The final distribution of the burden that results is called tax incidence.

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