What are taxes?
By: Baron Bedesky.
Series: Economics in action; Economics in action
Publisher: Crabtree Pub. Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780778742579; 9780778742623
Subjects: Taxation -- United States -- Juvenile literature.; Taxation -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Taxes
Description: Learn what taxes are, why they are needed (to keep governements from local to federal running), and how they are used to dissuade people from buying items.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 32) and index.
Table of contents: value: What are taxes?; value: The history of taxes; value: Taxes and the revolution; value: Taxes and the Civil War; value: Taxes today; value: the income tax; value: Sales tax; value: Other taxes; value: Taxes that help; value: Reasons for taxation; value: Our taxes at work; value: The Internal Revenue Service; value: Choosing not to pay taxes; value: The future of taxes.