shifting and incidence of taxation
Definition
An economic outcome of taxation that occurs when the income of a targeted group is negatively affected causing it to transfer the tax burden to another group thereby sharing the burden. For example, an additional business tax might cause businesses to increase their costs of goods sold to consumers in order to offset income lost to taxes.
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