Filing Income Tax Task Cards - Federal Income Taxes 1040 Activity
Filing Income Tax Task Cards - Federal Income Taxes 1040 Activity
This personal finance activity teaches students how to file a federal income tax return that includes a Form 1040 and a Schedule 1. Students are given a W-2 for fictional person "William A. Pay" who paid some student loan interest last year. He had also been unemployed for part of the year, taking his unemployment compensation untaxed. Will this lead to him owing taxes to the IRS?
**updated for April 2025 tax season** This activity will be updated every year. You will be able to redownload the updated version free of charge every year to get the update.
Included in this activity: 20 task cards, W-2, student answer sheet, answer key, completed 1040, completed Schedule 1, and links to a blank 1040, Schedule 1 and to the Tax Table.
The student answer sheet and task cards guide students through the 1040 and Schedule 1 so that students will come away from this activity confident about filing a federal income tax return. The final product of this activity is a completed federal tax form 1040 and an answer sheet.
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The link for the tax table does not work. This would be great if I had that
Good Resource that I used in my high school classroom.
Excellent activity —easy to teach, and my students really understood the material
This is an important skill that so many don't know how to do. The activity is very detailed and the students are doing it right now and are learning so much from it. I teach financial literacy and I plan on doing this activity with my senior leadership class also.
This was a very helpful resource to teach students about income tax