Refer to the Article Summary. Colorado taxes marijuana with a 12.9% sales tax on buyers and a 15% wholesale excise tax on producers, or a total tax of 27.9%

Suppose the actual burden of the tax falls 80 percent on consumers and 20 percent on producers. In this case, consumers will actually bear the tax burden of about ________ percent of the selling price and producers will actually bear the tax burden of ________ percent of the selling price.
A) 80; 20 B) 13; 15 C) 46; 54 D) 22; 6


D

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