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Irs: Exemptions Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand personal and dependency exemptions and how exemptions affect income that is subject to tax.
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Irs: Tax Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses Lesson Plan
This lesson plan help students understand the tax credit for child and dependent care expenses.
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Irs: Education Credits Lesson Plans
This lesson plans will help students understand refunds, amounts due, and recordkeeping requirements.
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Irs: Earned Income Credit Lesson Plans
This lesson plan will help learners understand the earned income credit.
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Irs: Refund, Amount Due, and Recordkeeping
This lesson plan will help students understand refunds, amounts due, and recordkeeping requirements.
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Irs: Electronic Tax Return Preparation and Transmission
This lesson plan will help students understand the electronic preparation and transmission of tax returns.
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Irs: Why Pay Taxes? Lesson Plan
This lesson will help learners understand the basic rationale, nature, and consequences of taxes.
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Irs: How Taxes Evolve? Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand that the legislative process of enacting federal income tax laws involves formal procedures based on the Constitution and informal procedures that blend and balance various interests.
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Irs: The Taxpayer's Responsibilities Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand that they have basic responsibilities as taxpayers.
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Irs: The Taxpayer's Rights Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand the rights of taxpayers and the procedures the IRS uses to process tax returns.
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Irs: Evolution of Taxation in the Constitution Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will give young scholars an overview of the role and purpose of taxes in American history.
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Irs: Early Tax Issues Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand how some historical events were inspired by tax issues and how tax issues shaped some of the government's actions and policies in the past.
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Irs: Income Tax Issues Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand how and why a federal income tax was implemented by Congress during the Civil War and in 1913.
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Understanding Taxes: The Social Security Act of 1935
This very complete lesson plan explains the history of the Social Security Act of 1935, its history and importance to the elderly during the Great Depression, and its importance today. Everything necessary to teach the instructional...
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Irs: The Social Security Act of 1935 Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand the history and purpose of the Social Security Act of 1935 and the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA).
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Irs: Taxes and a Market Economy Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand the role of taxes in the market economy.
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Irs: How Taxes Affect Us Lesson Plans
This lesson plan will help students understand that taxes can have different effects on different income groups.
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Irs: Proportional Taxes Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand that proportional taxes can have different effects on different income groups.
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Irs: Progressive Taxes Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand that progressive taxes can have different effects on different income groups.
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Irs: Regressive Taxes Lesson Plan
This lesson plan will help students understand that regressive taxes can have different effects on different income groups.
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Irs: How to Measure Fairness Lesson Plans
This lesson plan will help students understand that people have difficulty agreeing on a fair tax because of different values and priorities.
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Understanding Taxes : The Wealth Tax of 1935 and the Victory Tax of 1942
This lesson plan from the Internal Revenue Service gives the history of the progressive income tax which helped fund the social programs implemented during the Great Depression, and the war effort after the country joined the Allies in...
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Irs: Payroll Taxes and Federal Income Tax Withholding Assessment
Answer the following multiple-choice and true/false questions about payroll taxes and federal income tax withholding by clicking on the correct answers. To assess your answers, click the Check My Answers button at the bottom of the page.
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Irs: Income Tax Facts
This lesson plan will help students understand that taxation involves a compromise of conflicting goals and that people who have the same income may not pay the same amount in taxes.