Learn how to set up a proportion to determine how much additional tax you have to pay for an item.

Sales tax always increases the price of your purchases. How can you figure out how much you'll be paying in full? Teach your class how to figure our their total cost, including sales tax, with this video. Using an example of a pair of...

Sales tax always increases the price of your purchases. How can you figure out how much you'll be paying in full? Teach your class how to figure out their total cost, including sales tax, with this video. Using an example of a pair of...

In this video segment from Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, Imam Bashar Arafat, a scholar and interfaith leader in Baltimore, Maryland, describes zakaat, an almsgiving tax that Muslims pay annually. [2:01]

This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses government expenditures. Specifically, earmarks, pork barrel projects and logrolling are highlighted. This lesson is intended for students taking a high school or college level American...

This video lesson from Khan Academy discusses the discretionary and mandatory outlays of the US federal government. This lesson is intended for students taking a high school or college level American Government and Civics courses,...

John Green teaches you that the Revolution did not start on July 4, 1776. The Revolutionary War didn't start on July 4 either. The shooting started on April 19, 1775, at Lexington and/or Concord, MA. Or the shooting started with the...

The Internal Revenue Service is one agency that has quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial powers. It is responsible for making and enforcing rules governing the collection of taxes.

Explains how the inheritance tax on an estate is calculated.

In this Crash Course video, John Green teaches you about the roots of the American Revolution. [12:20]

Understand that a marginal tax rate does not apply to all of income in this video lecture. [4:16]

In this episode we learn how government use taxes and spending influence the economy. Sometimes the government gives, and sometimes it takes. And the giving and the taking can have a profound effect on how economies behave. [11:54]

An overview of how to calculate federal taxes. The video lecture explores how much in taxes would be paid off of an income of $50,000. [6:35]

A video lecture covering an overview of the estate tax. Understand the taxes that will be paid as a result of inheritance. [10:46]

Understanding what a tax deduction is.

A video lecture that investigates how much a single person with an income of $50,000 a year would pay in state taxes. Video takes you through calculations from beginning to end. [6:30]

Video lecture clarifies married taxes. [3:40]

Compares how the incomes of two people would be taxed if they were treated as individuals instead of as a married couple. [10:05]

The basics of the alternative minimum tax are explained in this video. [3:54]

Video offers a brief explanation Of the Townshend Acts, a series of laws passed by the British government on the American colonies in 1767. [5:01]

Brief video explores the implementation of the Stamp Act and the subsequent colonists' reactions. [4:32]

An overview of what the Alternative Minimum Tax is and its purpose. [3:45]

Explains what tax brackets are and how a progressive tax system works.

Uncle Sam takes a cut of our earnings every April. But what does he spend our hard-earned money on? The answers will truly surprise you in this verite odyssey.