Taxes & Public Services
What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money
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Could your child explain where the money comes from to pay for things like schools and hospitals that everyone uses?
What taxes are and why people pay them; how taxes fund schools, hospitals, roads, and emergency services; that governments decide how to spend tax money
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- Explain what tax is and that most working adults pay it
- Name at least three things that taxes pay for (schools, hospitals, roads, police, fire service)
- Describe why taxes are needed (everyone chips in so everyone benefits)
“Could your child explain where the money comes from to pay for things like schools and hospitals that everyone uses?”
Curriculum record
- Type
- Conceptual
- Subject
- Life Skills
- Domain
- Money & Finance
- Age range
- Ages 9–11