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1.6 Market failure

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Question 52

HMRC collects an indirect tax on two tobacco products. Table 1 shows the quantity of each product sold during one year and the indirect tax charged per item.

Tobacco productQuantity soldIndirect tax per item
Packets of cigarettes2,400,000£6.10
Pouches of hand-rolling tobacco350,000£8.40

Calculate the total revenue raised by the indirect tax. Show your working.

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1.6 Market failure Questions

  1. GCSE
  2. /Economics
  3. /1.6 Market failure

83 exam-style questions on AQA GCSE Economics 1.6 Market failure, covering 1.6.1a Market failure as misallocation of resources, 1.6.1b Government intervention, 1.6.2a Defining externalities, and 1.6.2b Positive and negative externalities. Each one has a worked solution and a mark scheme showing where the marks go.

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