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  2. Legal history of income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tax rates were 3% on income exceeding $600 and less than $10,000, and 5% on income exceeding $10,000. [8] This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in the Revenue Act of 1862. [9] After the war when the need for federal revenues decreased, Congress (in the Revenue Act of 1870) let the tax law expire in 1873. [10]

  3. History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The alternative minimum tax (AMT) was introduced by the Tax Reform Act of 1969, [65] and became operative in 1970. It was intended to target 155 high-income households that had been eligible for so many tax benefits that they owed little or no income tax under the tax code of the time. [66]

  4. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The Federal Estate Tax was introduced in 1916, and Gift Tax in 1924. Unlike many inheritance taxes, the Gift and Estate taxes were imposed on the transferor rather than the recipient. Many states adopted either inheritance taxes or estate and gift taxes, often computed as the amount allowed as a deduction for federal purposes.

  5. Revenue Act of 1861 - Wikipedia

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    The Revenue Act of 1861, formally cited as Act of August 5, 1861, Chap. XLV, 12 Stat. 292, included the first U.S. Federal income tax statute (see Sec. 49).The Act, motivated by the need to fund the Civil War, [1] imposed an income tax to be "levied, collected, and paid, upon the annual income of every person residing in the United States, whether such income is derived from any kind of ...

  6. It's tax day. Here's how much US residents pay in taxes in a ...

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    Total tax across a lifetime in Ohio came out to $453,333, according to the site, about 31.8% of their lifetime earnings of $1,425,470. That's No. 30 in the nation, ahead of North Carolina at ...

  7. Federal tax revenue by state - Wikipedia

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    This is a table of the total federal tax revenue by state, federal district, and territory collected by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service. Gross Collections indicates the total federal tax revenue collected by the IRS from each U.S. state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

  8. Income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal, State, and Local income tax as a percent GDP Federal income, payroll, and tariff tax history Taxes revenue by source chart history US Capital Gains Taxes history In 1913, the top tax rate was 7% on incomes above $500,000 (equivalent to $15.4 million [ 97 ] in 2023 dollars) and a total of $28.3 million was collected.

  9. Fuel taxes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The United States federal excise tax on gasoline is 18.4 cents per gallon and 24.4 cents per gallon for diesel fuel. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Proceeds from the tax partly support the Highway Trust Fund . The federal tax was last raised on October 1, 1993, and is not indexed to inflation , which increased 111% from Oct. 1993 until Dec. 2023.