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 6 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 by shoppers on a new jacket, Paid each year by a family that owns a house, Paid by a company on its factory building, Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park, Collected by the store and sent to the government, Paid to park in a city parking garage
Property taxSales taxFee
2.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid to the city for the water a home uses, Added to the price of a new TV, Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt, Paid by a farmer on the land he owns, Paid to swim at the city pool, Goes up when a home is worth more
Property taxSales taxFee
3.Sort each one: Property tax or Sales tax or Fee?
Sort: Paid each time someone buys a new bike, Paid by the owner of an apartment building, Paid each month for trash pickup, Paid to replace a lost library card, Paid on school supplies bought at a store, Based on how much a home and its land are worth
Property taxSales taxFee
LessonPrint · D2.Eco.12.3-5 · Set 6 · free to copy for classroom use
Answer key — Property Tax, Sales Tax or Fee?
Set 6. Prints on its own sheet.
1.1. Collected by the store and sent to the government — Sales tax 2. Paid by a company on its factory building — Property tax 3. Paid by shoppers on a new jacket — Sales tax 4. Paid each year by a family that owns a house — Property tax 5. Paid to park in a city parking garage — Fee 6. Paid to rent a picnic shelter in a city park — Fee
2.1. Added to the price of a new TV — Sales tax 2. Goes up when a home is worth more — Property tax 3. Listed as TAX at the bottom of a store receipt — Sales tax 4. Paid by a farmer on the land he owns — Property tax 5. Paid to swim at the city pool — 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. Paid by the owner of an apartment building — Property tax 3. Paid each month for trash pickup — Fee 4. Paid each time someone buys a new bike — Sales tax 5. Paid on school supplies bought at a store — Sales tax 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.