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 20 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: Added at the register when you buy shoes, Paid to swim at the city pool, Paid each year on an empty lot someone owns, Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park, Collected by the store and sent to the government, Paid by the owner of an apartment building
Property taxSales taxFee
2.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid by a store owner on the building she owns, Paid to join a city soccer league, Paid to park in a city parking garage, Paid by a company on its factory building, Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt, Paid on school supplies bought at a store
Property taxSales taxFee
3.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid by shoppers on a new jacket, Paid to replace a lost library card, Paid by a farmer on the land he owns, Added to the price of a new TV, Based on how much a home and its land are worth, Paid each month for trash pickup
Property taxSales taxFee
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.12.3-5 · Set 20 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
Set 20. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Added at the register when you buy shoes — Sales tax 2. Collected by the store and sent to the government — Sales tax 3. Paid by the owner of an apartment building — Property tax 4. Paid each year on an empty lot someone owns — Property tax 5. Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park — Fee 6. Paid to swim at the city pool — Fee
2.1. Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt — Sales tax 2. Paid by a company on its factory building — Property tax 3. Paid by a store owner on the building she owns — Property tax 4. Paid on school supplies bought at a store — Sales tax 5. Paid to join a city soccer league — Fee 6. Paid to park in a city parking garage — Fee
3.1. 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 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 replace a lost library card — Fee
Last reviewed 2026-09-05. Aligned to D2.Eco.12.3-5 of the C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards.