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 23 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 each month for trash pickup, Collected by the store and sent to the government, Paid by the owner of an apartment building, Paid to get a license for a pet dog, Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt, Paid by a store owner on the building she owns
Property taxSales taxFee
2.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Added at the register when you buy shoes, Paid by a farmer on the land he owns, Based on how much a home and its land are worth, Paid to swim at the city pool, Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park, Paid on school supplies bought at a store
Property taxSales taxFee
3.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid to replace a lost library card, Goes up when a home is worth more, Paid each year by a family that owns a house, Paid each time someone buys a new bike, Paid to join a city soccer league, Paid by shoppers on a new jacket
Property taxSales taxFee
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Answer key — Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
Set 23. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Collected by the store and sent to the government — Sales tax 2. Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt — Sales tax 3. Paid by a store owner on the building she owns — Property tax 4. Paid by the owner of an apartment building — Property tax 5. Paid each month for trash pickup — Fee 6. Paid to get a license for a pet dog — 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. Paid by a farmer on the land he owns — Property tax 4. Paid on school supplies bought at a store — Sales tax 5. Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park — Fee 6. Paid to swim at the city pool — Fee
3.1. Goes up when a home is worth more — Property tax 2. Paid by shoppers on a new jacket — Sales 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 join a city soccer league — 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.