Calculating Shareable Output and Government Revenue from Taxes
To illustrate how taxes affect the division of output, consider an economy with a 25% direct tax rate () and a 20% consumption tax rate (). The portion of output per worker () available for distribution between wages and profits is calculated as . With the given rates, this becomes . This means two-thirds of the output is shareable between firms and workers, while the government collects the remaining one-third as tax revenue.
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