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 19 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: Paid to swim at the city pool, Paid by the owner of an apartment building, Added to the price of a toy at the store, Added to the price of a new TV, Paid to park in a city parking garage, Paid by a farmer on the land he owns
Property taxSales taxFee
2.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Based on how much a home and its land are worth, Paid each time someone buys a new bike, Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park, Added at the register when you buy shoes, Goes up when a home is worth more, Paid to replace a lost library card
Property taxSales taxFee
3.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid to get a license for a pet dog, Paid by a store owner on the building she owns, Paid by shoppers on a new jacket, Paid by a company on its factory building, Paid each month for trash pickup, Paid on school supplies bought at a store
Property taxSales taxFee
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.12.3-5 · Set 19 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
Set 19. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Added to the price of a new TV — Sales tax 2. Added to the price of a toy at the store — Sales tax 3. Paid by a farmer on the land he owns — Property tax 4. Paid by the owner of an apartment building — Property tax 5. Paid to park in a city parking garage — Fee 6. Paid to swim at the city pool — Fee
2.1. Added at the register when you buy shoes — Sales tax 2. Based on how much a home and its land are worth — Property tax 3. Goes up when a home is worth more — Property tax 4. Paid each time someone buys a new bike — Sales tax 5. Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park — Fee 6. Paid to replace a lost library card — Fee
3.1. Paid by a company on its factory building — Property tax 2. Paid by a store owner on the building she owns — Property tax 3. Paid by shoppers on a new jacket — Sales tax 4. Paid each month for trash pickup — Fee 5. Paid on school supplies bought at a store — Sales tax 6. Paid to get a license for a pet dog — Fee
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.12.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.