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Who pays taxes?

The reporter in action

Area : Spanish Language and Literature. Type : Individual Level : First cycle of ESO.

  • Get into reporter mode : Ask your parents, your relatives, your acquaintances if they remember what they paid in taxes this year (or last year). Using the results of this survey, create a table reflecting the different personal and family situations of the people who gave you this information and the different amounts they have paid in taxes.

  • Continue as a reporter : Ask your parents, your relatives, your acquaintances about all the public services they have used this year (or last year). With the results of that survey, make a table where you put by sections [for example: healthcare (health centres, clinics, hospitals, medicines, etc.), education, culture and sports (schools, libraries, swimming pools, museums, cultural centres, etc.), pensions (in the case of your grandparents), transport, security (police, justice) etc.] all public services used by them. Assuming you've completed both surveys (this one and the previous one), you can create another table that reflects the different personal and family situations of each person who provided you with the information, the public services they used, and how much they remember paying in taxes.

  • Continue as a reporter : Make an article (for example, with this title: "The public services we use on any given day") which reflects several public services that you use on a typical day. You can think about what you do from the moment you get up until you go to bed (for example, as soon as you get up, the first thing you do is turn on the light and open a tap, then you have breakfast, throw things away, then you go out, then think about the school where you study, the park where you go with your friends, your sports center, etc.) Make a list of all of them and write down who provides them to you next to them (City Council, Autonomous Community, etc.)

  • Continue as a reporter : Make an article (for example, with this title: "Young people also pay taxes") where you count the things you buy with your allowance and the taxes you pay in your daily life without realizing it, for example, every time you buy something, or go to the movies, or use public transportation, or top up your phone.