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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 (tdt_d) and a 20% consumption tax rate (tvt_v). The portion of output per worker (λ\lambda) available for distribution between wages and profits is calculated as λ(1+td)(1+tv)\frac{\lambda}{(1 + t_d) (1 + t_v)}. With the given rates, this becomes λ(1.25)(1.2)=23λ\frac{\lambda}{(1.25)(1.2)} = \frac{2}{3}\lambda. 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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