Indirect taxes

Q6(g) Evaluate, with a diagram, the microeconomic consequences of raising indirect tax on animal products.

Q4(a) State what an indirect tax is (2-mark defined term).

Q4(c) Pick the indirect tax from four listed (corporation / income / inheritance / value added).

Q14 Assess, with a market diagram, the micro gains from the plastic packaging levies the UK, Spain and Italy charge per tonne.

Q7 Sketch the market effect of France's proposed EUR0.65 per litre levy on fuel used by private jets.

Q12(d) Examine two microeconomic consequences of Indonesia's planned production tax on coal.

Q6(f) Evaluate what taxing plastic food-packaging would achieve, illustrating the answer with a diagram.

Q14 Evaluate taxing air travel as a way of cutting carbon emissions, given flight and emissions data.

Q12(e) Discuss what taxing junk food would do, using the global obesity extract, with a suitable diagram.

Q9 Explain how Zimbabwe's per-litre levy on energy drinks differs from its 15% consumption tax.

Q11 Explain, with a diagram, how Vietnam's 10% levy on online sales affects the market for paperbacks bought online.

Q6 Peru taxed sugar-sweetened drinks ad valorem in 2018; from the diagram, work out the portion of that tax consumers end up bearing.

Q11 Explain, with a diagram, how the UK National Food Strategy's proposed £6 per kg levy on manufacturers' added salt would affect salty food markets.

Q12(a) Give the meaning of indirect tax, as used in Extract B.

Q13 Evaluate the microeconomic consequences of Uganda taxing mobile internet at 200 shillings daily, a levy followed by take-up sliding from 47.4% to 35% of people.

Q7 Sketch how the UAE's 50% levy — an indirect tax — on energy drinks moves equilibrium price and quantity.

Q12(d) Examine two consequences India's heavy indirect taxes on petrol and diesel might bring, using Extract A.

Q1(a) Sketch demand and supply to illustrate how the burden of a per-litre petrol duty (58p) splits between buyers and sellers.

Q4(a) On a diagram showing a specific tax shifting the supply curve, identify the area showing the government's tax revenue.

Q4(b) With an example, explain the government's rationale for levying specific taxes on numerous goods and services.

Q13 Evaluate the impact of indirect taxes charged on petrol (context: indirect tax is 68% of the pump price in the Netherlands and 59% in Germany).

Q12(d) Extract C describes Finland scrapping its sugar tax: examine two microeconomic consequences of that move.

Q12(e) Discuss, with a diagram, the microeconomic effects of taxing plastic bags in the EU, using the Danish and Greek evidence.

Q4(a) On a 2016 energy bill averaging £1 070 before 5% VAT, select the annual VAT charge (£53.50 / £214.00 / £1 019.00 / £1 123.50).

Q4(b) Mark on a diagram what a higher VAT rate does to the domestic energy market.

Q4(c) Give a short definition of an indirect tax.

Q1(e) Evaluate the micro and macro consequences of an HFSS tax levied on products loaded with fat, salt or sugar.

Q12(e) Discuss what imposing an indirect tax on meat would probably do, citing Extract B, and support your answer with a diagram.

Q7 Sketch how Saudi Arabia's 2018 five per cent indirect tax, levied on goods and services, moves petrol's equilibrium price and quantity.

Q2(a) With 73 million tickets sold weekly at £2 each, of which 24p is tax, work out Camelot's post-tax weekly revenue.

Q1(c) Examine what an indirect tax on disposable coffee cups could achieve in cutting their use.

Q7 Evaluate what a 20% levy on soft drinks high in sugar would do at the microeconomic level.