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Which point on the curve is the REVENUE-MAXIMISING tax rate?

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Point B. The top of the curve, at rate t*: point B. Every rate either side of it raises less. The revenue-maximising rate is the TOP of the inverted U — point B, at tax rate t*, giving Rmax. Read it down to the rate axis and across to the revenue axis. Below t* you are still climbing; above t* you are throwing revenue away.

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