History of taxes in California is interesting, odd

California’s early taxes were disproportionate to population and wealth, and in 1870 the state created the State Board of ...
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Window tax? 21 of history's strangest levies

Houses with more than 10 windows had to pay a huge 10 shillings. The tax negatively impacted the health of the nation as ...
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A History of Taxpayer Revolts

Though animus toward tax increases was a key reason for the American Revolution, historians have not shown much interest in the topic in other contexts. One reason may be that the history of tax ...
NPR

Past is Prologue: Talking Taxes

Benjamin Franklin said the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Sifting through receipts, deciphering confusing codes, and filling out forms is an annual ritual that's about much more than ...
KREM

The taxing history of sales tax in Idaho

IDAHO, USA — About a month ago, The 208 did a story on how the formula for how Idaho lottery money helps Idaho schools would be changing for just the third time in 35 years. It would be going back to ...
Forbes

Tax History: Soaking The Forgotten Man: Why New Dealers Taxed The Middle Class

The book cover of "A Half-Century With the Internal Revenue Code: The Memoirs of Stanley S. Surrey." Stanley S. Surrey was one of the giants of 20th-century U.S. tax policy. Even today, nearly 40 ...
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History and Outlook of the Federal Estate Tax

At the end of 2025, the federal estate and gift tax exemption will dramatically decrease unless Congress affirmatively passes a law saying otherwise. This event is the “sunsetting” of a 2018 federal ...
Wall Street Journal

Taxation and the History of American Highway Funding

Historian Kenneth Jackson (“Homeownership for All Is a Dying Dream” by Mene Ukueberuwa, Weekend Interview, Sept. 17) knows far more about the history of American housing than I do. But he isn’t ...
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History’s Biggest Tax Cheats

There’s an old saying that the only two things you can’t avoid are death and taxes, but whoever said that clearly hasn’t been to the Grand Caymans. The reality is that, throughout history, people have ...
Forbes

A Dive Into The History Of Labor Day—With Some Tax Twists

Chances are that you are spending today gathered around a grill or trying to soak in some last minute sun at the pool. Labor Day weekend is considered the unofficial end to summer and the beginning of ...
Reason

A History of Taxpayer Revolts

"Mr. Taxpayer versus Mr. Tax Spender": Taxpayers' Associations, Pocketbook Politics, and the Law During the Great Depression, by Linda Upham-Bornstein, Temple University Press, 220 pages, $32.95 ...