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Indirect taxes tend to be regressive

When calculating the impact of taxes on a nation’s population, an economist looks for the distributional incidence among segments. While every nation differs in the way their taxes are gained - some receive a majority via direct income tax while others through an indirect sales tax - in general, direct taxes are progressive and indirect taxes are regressive. What this means for a distribution of the nation’s population is that the poorest population are less impacted than the richest in a progressive tax scheme, while the inverse is true in a regressive tax scheme.…