Your Money at Work: Taxes

by Ernestine Giesecke

Book Overview

Open the pages of this book to get an inside look at taxes. Find out when taxes were first collected and by whom, why some taxes are not called taxes, and what people have done in the past to protest being taxed. This book covers why and how governments collect taxes; what services tax money helps provide; the different types of taxes; and what it was like to be taxed during the Middle Ages.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1588109577
• ISBN13: 9781588109576
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 7.4" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 5