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 18 of 25 · the same problems every time you open this link.
Set 1 has all 25 in a single PDF. All 25 sets ask different questions.
Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
D2.Eco.12.3-5
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Sort each payment into the kind it is.
1.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Goes up when a home is worth more, Paid by the owner of an apartment building, Added to the price of a toy at the store, Paid to swim at the city pool, Paid to replace a lost library card, Added at the register when you buy shoes
Property taxSales taxFee
2.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Added to the price of a new TV, Paid each year by a family that owns a house, Collected by the store and sent to the government, Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park, Paid to the city for the water a home uses, Paid by a company on its factory building
Property taxSales taxFee
3.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt, Paid by a farmer on the land he owns, Based on how much a home and its land are worth, Paid to park in a city parking garage, Paid to join a city soccer league, Paid each time someone buys a new bike
Property taxSales taxFee
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.12.3-5 · Set 18 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
Set 18. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Added at the register when you buy shoes — Sales tax 2. Added to the price of a toy at the store — Sales tax 3. Goes up when a home is worth more — Property tax 4. Paid by the owner of an apartment building — Property tax 5. Paid to replace a lost library card — Fee 6. Paid to swim at the city pool — Fee
2.1. Added to the price of a new TV — Sales tax 2. Collected by the store and sent to the government — Sales tax 3. Paid by a company on its factory building — Property 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
3.1. Based on how much a home and its land are worth — Property tax 2. Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt — Sales tax 3. Paid by a farmer on the land he owns — Property tax 4. Paid each time someone buys a new bike — Sales tax 5. Paid to join a city soccer league — Fee 6. Paid to park in a city parking garage — Fee
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.12.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.