---
title: "SSEPF5: Taxation and Financial Choices (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSEPF5
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSEPF5
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
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# SSEPF5: Taxation and Financial Choices

Explain how changes in taxation can have an impact on an individual’s spending and saving choices.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSEPF5a**: Describe income, sales, property, capital gains, and estate taxes in the U.S.
- **SSEPF5b**: Describe the difference between progressive, regressive, and proportional taxes.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.