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

California’s early taxes were disproportionate to population and wealth, and in 1870 the state created the State Board of ...

In "The Second Estate," Boston College law professor Ray Madoff argues that America’s tax code has birthed a modern ...

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 ...

Learned, lively and often irreverent, David McWilliams’s “The History of Money” is rich with surprising details about ...

That’s when the Republican presidential candidate promises to lower taxes and the Democrat candidate promises to increase them — which makes me ponder the history of taxation in America. The income ...

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 ...

"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 ...