Direct & Indirect TaxWho pays, and who actually bears the cost.Accounting & FinanceDirect taxLevied on income, profit orwealthPaid by the person assessedIncome tax, corporation taxCan be made progressive easilyHarder to avoid, easier to seeIndirect taxLevied on transactionsCollected by the sellerVAT, excise dutiesRegressive unless exemptionsapplyCost split between buyer andsellerTHE DIFFERENCE THAT MATTERSThe split of an indirect tax depends on elasticity: the lessprice-sensitive side bears more of it.Educational reference. This is why tobacco duty falls mostly onconsumers — demand is relatively inelastic.Direct & Indirect Taxlearnposters.com
Direct & Indirect Tax — printable business wall chart from LearnPosters. Free vector PDF, US Letter and A4.

What’s on the Direct & Indirect Tax poster

Direct tax against Indirect tax, side by side.

Educational reference. This is why tobacco duty falls mostly on consumers — demand is relatively inelastic.

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What’s on the Direct & Indirect Tax poster?
Direct tax against Indirect tax, side by side. Direct tax: Levied on income, profit or wealth; Direct tax: Paid by the person assessed; Direct tax: Income tax, corporation tax; Direct tax: Can be made progressive easily; Direct tax: Harder to avoid, easier to see; Indirect tax: Levied on transactions; Indirect tax: Collected by the seller; Indirect tax: VAT, excise duties; Indirect tax: Regressive unless exemptions apply; Indirect tax: Cost split between buyer and seller; The split of an indirect tax depends on elasticity: the less price-sensitive side bea…. Educational reference. This is why tobacco duty falls mostly on consumers — demand is relatively inelastic.
Who is the Direct & Indirect Tax poster for?
Direct & Indirect Tax belongs to the Accounting & Finance section rather than to a school year, because business is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning taxation can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
When should you use the Direct & Indirect Tax poster?
Legal incidence is who hands over the money. Economic incidence is who ends up poorer. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Direct & Indirect Tax belongs on the wall where that business work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
What other posters go with Direct & Indirect Tax?
How Tax Systems Work, How VAT Works and Capital Gains sit alongside Direct & Indirect Tax in the Accounting & Finance section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.How Tax Systems WorkHow VAT WorksCapital Gains
Is the Direct & Indirect Tax poster free to download and print?
Yes. Direct & Indirect Tax downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Accounting & Finance section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
What size does the Direct & Indirect Tax poster print at?
Direct & Indirect Tax is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Direct & Indirect Tax loses nothing.Printing guide

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