The document provides resources for learning about various tax-related topics for business studies students, including: - Websites that explain what tax is and provide information about income tax, GST, Kiwisaver, and tax credits. - Questions about income tax, when you need a tax code, when you start paying tax, how low-income earners are taxed, and whether tax is always taken from earnings. - An activity where students sort cards about tax into related groups and explain the relationships with arrows and descriptions. - Information about how the government spends tax money on areas like health, social security, welfare, and education.

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2. Paeroa College Business Studies Pre Test What do you know about TAX testmoz.com/15915

3. Tax Video

4. What is Tax: www.whatstax.govt.nz Sorted: www.sorted.org.nz Inland Revenue: www.ird.govt.nz Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org Q&A What is income tax? Why do people pay income tax? When don’t you need a tax code? When do you have to start paying tax? How much tax does a low-income earner pay? Is tax always taken out from the money you earn? Paeroa College Business Studies

5. What is Tax: www.whatstax.govt.nz Sorted: www.sorted.org.nz Inland Revenue: www.ird.govt.nz Wikipedia: www.wikipedia.org What is GST? What is Kiwisaver? What does it mean for young people? Who can apply for a student loan? How do you repay a student loan? Do you have to pay tax if you work for yourself? What are tax credits and which ones can young people qualify for? Paeroa College Business Studies

6. Card Sort 1. Sort the cards into similar groups 2. Paste the cards onto the sheet and link them with arrows to show how they are related 3. Write on the arrow lines the reasons for the relationships

7. This is How the Government Use our Taxes Write in your books, a statement about Health, Social Security & Welfare and Education

8. Government Spending The Government will spend about $8.5 billion over the next few years to help the rebuilding of Christchurch The Government spends around $70 billion a year ( $ 70,000,000,000 ) The population of NZ as at Sunday, 28 Aug 2011 at 10:05:20 am wa s 4,411,120 How much money per person, per year does the Government spend? $15,869 How much money per person is the government predicting it will have to spend on rebuilding Christchurch due to the earthquakes? $1,927 website

9. Your first job What you need to do The first thing you need to do is to find out whether you need to pay income tax. Important: You don't need a tax code if: you're a primary or secondary school student, and you're earning less than $45 a week, (before tax, from all your jobs), and/or your total annual earnings will be less than $2,340.

10. Tax Glossary Use this website to fill in the missing words on the handout. http ://tinyurl.com/taxglossary

11. Paeroa College Business Studies Do this Test Again now you know the answers! What do you know about TAX testmoz.com/15915