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Stroke order matters in Chinese: it keeps the character balanced, and it is how dictionaries and handwriting input methods expect a character to be written.
税 is an ideographic compound. Grain 禾 paid as tribute 兑; 兑 also provides the pronunciation.
Radical: 禾 + 7 more strokes
shuì税

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Open the tool →税 (shuì) means “Money or goods collected by the government from enterprises, collectives, or individuals; tax” in Chinese.
税 is pronounced shuì in Mandarin Chinese.
税 has 12 strokes.
税 is written in 12 strokes, starting from the radical 禾. See the animated stroke order on this page.
The radical of 税 is 禾, and 税 is an ideographic compound.