A tax imposed on apples will be paid largely by THE SELLERS OF THE APPLES. The demand for apples being elastic means that small changes in price will cause large changes in quantity consumed. The supply for apples being inelastic means that the quantity supplied of apples is unaffected when the price of apple changes. This means that because of the imposed tax, the price of the apple will probably increase but since an increase in price will reduced the quantity bought, the sellers has to maintain the original price of the apples. In this case, the sellers of the apple will bear the larger parts of the imposed tax