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How Governments Pay for Services: Taxes

  • Grade 5
  • Social Studies
  • 59 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC5-SS-12

A government building in the middle is joined by arrows to four services it helps pay for: schools, hospitals, roads and firefighters. A question mark asks where the money comes from and turns into three common kinds of taxes (income tax, sales tax and property tax), and coins then flow from them into the government and out to the services, ending on the recap that taxes are the main way governments pay for services.

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The question this lesson answers

How do governments pay for the services we share?

Governments help pay for schools, hospitals, roads and firefighters.

Transcript

What the lesson says

How do governments pay for the services we share?

Governments help pay for schools, hospitals, roads and firefighters.

These services cost a lot of money.

So where does the money come from?

Most of it comes from taxes.

Here are three common kinds of taxes.

Income tax is paid on the money people earn.

Sales tax is paid on many things people buy.

Property tax is paid on homes and land.

The government collects this tax money.

It uses the money to pay for services.

Many people share the cost of services that everyone can use.

Taxes are the main way governments pay for services.

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 5

Social Studies, Government and land: levels of government (First Peoples, federal, provincial, and municipal), their main functions, and sources of fundingBC5-SS-12

Previous: Three Levels of GovernmentNext: Direct and Representative Democracy

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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