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Taxes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders read Stone Fax and explore earning money, saving, credit and taxes. In this taxes lesson, 4th graders complete a worksheet to develop understanding of paying off debts, keeping a checkbook, calculating sales tax and...
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Internal Revenue Service

Fairness in Taxes: How Taxes Affect Us

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers are able to compare the effects of the following, using income as a measure of ability to pay: a progressive tax, a regressive tas, and a proportional tax. They explain how a mixture of regressive and progressive taxes...
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Tax Problem: Percents

For Students 9th - 12th
In this tax worksheet, students solve 1 problem about taxes.  Students find the federal and state tax on a given amount of money.
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Death and Taxes

For Teachers 9th - Higher Ed
Students explore the "death tax" and analyze statistical information about how the government taxes dead people. They research sources to determine the validity of a anti-tax group campaign and John McCain's claims about taxes. ...
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Internal Revenue Service

Module 1: Payroll Taxes and Federal Income Tax Withholding

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students complete lessons and worksheet to identify the different types and uses of payroll taxes. They examine how federal income taxes are used, determine the difference between gross and net pay, and determine how employers withhold...
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Taxes, Tips, and Salaries

For Students 7th - 9th
In this taxes, tips and salaries worksheet, students read story problems and determine the sales price, percent of change, amount of tax, and final price.  This four-page worksheet contains 8 multi-step prolems.  Answers are provided on...
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Analyzing "Do Not Tax the Colonies"

For Teachers 7th - 12th
In this primary source research worksheet, students examine a copy of "Do Not Tax the Colonies," (not included) and respond to 6 short answer questions regarding its content.
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Taxing Taxes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students complete math word problems.  In this taxes instructional activity, students discuss taxes and why they are necessary.  Students research the history of taxes, write a summary of their findings, determine the sales tax in their...
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Excise Taxes

For Students 10th - 12th
Challenge your class with this learning exercise relating to the excise tax. They examine a variety of graphs and diagrams, solve problems, and make predictions.
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Progressive Reforms

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders analyze editorial cartoons focusing on progressive reform. They compare their analysis and research. Students discuss the cost of reform leading to the creation of a national income tax through the passage of the 16th...
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Taxes in U.S. History: The Social Security Act of 1935

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explain the history of the Social Security Act and the FICA tax. They describe what Social Security is and whom it is intended to help. They explain the purpose of the FICA tax.
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Federal Income Tax

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Introduce your class to the federal tax system through an algebraic lens. This resource asks pupils to examine the variable structure of the tax system based on income. Young accountants use equations, expressions, and inequalities to...
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Taxes and Sales

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Collaborative discussions around this retail store problem will be taxing. Calculating discount and tax and the order of the operations are used to motivate an opportunity for learners to make a convincing argument using algebraic...
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PBS

Taxes—Where Does Your Money Go?

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed Standards
People spend some of their money before they even get it! Lead a lesson that helps scholars understand the different deductions taken from a paycheck. They calculate rates and percentages and learn where the money goes after it leaves...
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Carolina K-12

Learning About the Federal Budget: “Get a Pencil, You’re Tackling the Deficit!”

For Teachers 10th Standards
Your class members have been selected by the president to help solve the budget crisis as part of a special deficit commission. After learning about fiscal policy, economic theories, and the federal budget through a detailed PowerPoint...
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Are Taxes "Normal?"

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students explore the concept of normal distribution. For this normal distribution lesson, students find the normal distribution of taxes in the 50 US states. Students make histograms, frequency tables, and find the mean and median of tax...
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How Taxing are Taxes?

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Learners explore the ways that taxes are levied based on taxable income. They analyze how a new series of tax cuts might affect people of different income levels and their tax rates.
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Taxes

For Students 9th - 10th
For this word search worksheet, students solve a word search by locating forty words related to taxes. The word list includes IRS, jail, and law.
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Labor, Choice, and Sales Tax

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students consider the idea of earning and spending money. In this money management lesson plan, students discuss the concept of saving and spending money through the reading of a story and by completing several activities that involve...
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What is Taxed and Why

For Teachers 7th - Higher Ed
Students are exposed to the need for federal, state and local governments to tax constituents to provide goods and services for their residents. They identify the different kinds of taxes and give examples of the goods and services taxed.
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A Look at Individual Federal Income Tax

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers investigate the concept of a personal federal income tax. They conduct research and participate in class discussion in order to deal some of the issues. They include why there is an individual income tax and how the money...
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Taxes

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders explore the concept of taxes and gather relevant information to become a tax 'expert. In this taxes lesson plan, 4th graders work in teams to find information regarding different areas in taxes. Students work together to...
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The Wealth Tax of 1935 and the Victory Tax of 1942

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Students explain that during the Great Depression and World War II, the Roosevelt administration implemented new, broader, and more progressive taxes in order to cover the costs of the New Deal programs and the war.
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Module 8-Tax Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Pupils explain the tax credit for child and dependent care expenses. They distinguish between a tax deduction and a tax credit. They see how the tax credit for child and dependent care expenses affects the tax liability.

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