In his book, The Black Tax: 150 Years of Theft, Exploitation and Dispossession in America, Andrew Kahrl examines the history of the property tax and its role in perpetuating wealth inequality. This ...

President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861, levying the first income tax on Americans to help fund the Union’s Civil War effort.= It was only a flat tax of 3% on people making over $800 ...

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

An affordable housing development under construction in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. An affordable housing development under construction in Hell's Kitchen, New York City. Deb Cohn-Orbach—Universal ...

An inflatable advertising sign dances outside of a tax preparer's office in Chicago, Illinois. Love it or hate it, it’s that time of year again when Americans face their annual reckoning with Uncle ...

Trump went on a stunning riff on the declaration — by John Roberts — that "tariffs are taxes," admitting Americans "pay ...

For the first time since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, funding for the Russian military and weapons procurement "consumed" every second rouble collected from taxpayers for the federal ...