Code: 4.6.1 · Children and youth
Purpose and impact of taxes
Descriptors
Knowledge
What you can do at this level
- Kage:6-10
Understands that there are taxes on different products, services, income and assets, etc
- Kage:6-10sustainablecitizenship
Understands why the state collects taxes (i.e. to spend on public services such as health and education, to provide support to people in difficulty, to protect the environment and facilitate the climate transition, etc.)
- Kage:16-18becoming-an-adult
Understands the main types of taxes at national/local level
- Kage:16-18becoming-an-adult
Understands the consequences if taxes are not paid or paid late
Skill
What you can do at this level
- Sage:11-15becoming-an-adult
Can explain why people may be subject to different taxes, pay different amounts of taxes or may receive different public benefits
- Sage:16-18digitalbecoming-an-adult
Pays any applicable taxes or fines on time, including online
Attitude
What you can do at this level
- Aage:16-18entrepreneurship
Motivated to learn how fiscal policies can impact one’s spending and saving decisions and support entrepreneurship
- Learning outcome types
- K — What you need to know: theoretical understanding and factual information.
- S — What you can do: practical and technical abilities.
- A — How you approach things: values, dispositions and behaviours.