Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee? is a free printable Grade 3 to Grade 5 social studies worksheet on telling property tax, sales tax and user fees apart, aligned to C3 Framework indicator D2.Eco.12.3-5. It prints 3 questions with an answer key on its own sheet of paper, in 25 versions that each ask different questions, so no two students in the class work from the same page. Print it from the browser or download it as a PDF — no account, no email.
Set 1 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
1.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park, Added to the price of a new TV, Based on how much a home and its land are worth, Paid each time someone buys a new bike, Paid to the city for the water a home uses, Paid each year by a family that owns a house
Property taxSales taxFee
2.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid by shoppers on a new jacket, Paid by a farmer on the land he owns, Paid each month for trash pickup, Paid to park in a city parking garage, Added at the register when you buy shoes, Goes up when a home is worth more
Property taxSales taxFee
3.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid to swim at the city pool, Collected by the store and sent to the government, Paid to get a license for a pet dog, Paid each year on an empty lot someone owns, Paid by a company on its factory building, Paid on school supplies bought at a store
Property taxSales taxFee
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.12.3-5 · Set 1 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
Set 1. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Added to the price of a new TV — Sales tax 2. Based on how much a home and its land are worth — Property tax 3. Paid each time someone buys a new bike — Sales tax 4. Paid each year by a family that owns a house — Property tax 5. Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park — Fee 6. Paid to the city for the water a home uses — Fee
2.1. Added at the register when you buy shoes — Sales tax 2. Goes up when a home is worth more — Property tax 3. Paid by a farmer on the land he owns — Property tax 4. Paid by shoppers on a new jacket — Sales tax 5. Paid each month for trash pickup — Fee 6. Paid to park in a city parking garage — Fee
3.1. Collected by the store and sent to the government — Sales tax 2. Paid by a company on its factory building — Property tax 3. Paid each year on an empty lot someone owns — Property tax 4. Paid on school supplies bought at a store — Sales tax 5. Paid to get a license for a pet dog — Fee 6. Paid to swim at the city pool — Fee
Questions about Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
What does the Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee? worksheet cover?
It practices telling property tax, sales tax and user fees apart — 3 questions for Grade 3 to Grade 5, all on C3 Framework D2.Eco.12.3-5: Explain where the government gets the money for what it provides. The instruction to students is “Sort each payment into the kind it is”, and the answer key follows on the next sheet.
Which C3 Framework indicator does Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee? practice?
D2.Eco.12.3-5, under Economics for Grade 3 to Grade 5. The published indicator reads: “Explain the ways in which the government pays for the goods and services it provides.” The worksheet assesses that indicator rather than a paraphrase of it.
What age or grade is this worksheet for?
Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee? is written for Grade 3 to Grade 5, typically ages 40-41. It is one of the sheets on D2.Eco.12.3-5, so it suits any student working at that standard — including older students revisiting it and younger ones working ahead.
Does Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee? come with an answer key?
Yes. All 3 answers are generated from the same problems as the questions, so the key cannot drift out of step with the sheet. It starts on a fresh sheet of paper, after the questions, so it is not handed out with the class by accident.
How many different versions of Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee? can I print?
25 — one per student, and all 25 ask different questions. Set 1 downloads the whole class as a single PDF. Every version is fixed to its own address, so a sheet printed today holds the same problems when you reopen it next week.
Is Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee? free to print and photocopy?
Yes. Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?, its answer key and its 25 versions are free to print and photocopy for your own class, with no account, no email capture and no subscription at the download step. Please do not resell them or republish them as your own.
More practice for D2.Eco.12.3-5
Explain where the government gets the money for what it provides.