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  2. Randolph E. Paul - Wikipedia

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    In 1940, he was named a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the first tax lawyer ever to occupy the position.Throughout the 1930s, Paul served as a part-time advisor to U.S. Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. Five days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Paul finally accepted previously-declined entreaties to work full-time for the U.S. Treasury Department.

  3. 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 [8] This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in the Revenue Act of 1862.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]

  4. Son of Boss - Wikipedia

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    In addition to KPMG's former deputy chairman, the individuals indicted include two former heads of KPMG's tax practice and a former tax partner in the New York, New York office of a prominent national law firm. [8] The only Son of BOSS case which has been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court is United States v.

  5. Income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first income tax suggested in the United States was during the War of 1812. The idea for the tax was based on the British Tax Act of 1798. The British tax law applied progressive rates to income. The British tax rates ranged from 0.833% on income starting at £60 to 10% on income above £200. The tax proposal was developed in 1814.

  6. List of United States Supreme Court taxation and revenue case law

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    The Supreme Court of the United States has heard numerous cases in the area of tax law. This is an incomplete list of those cases. This is an incomplete list of those cases. Article One

  7. Taxpayers will get higher standard deductions in 2025, IRS ...

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    And heads of households will get a $22,500 standard deduction, up $600 from 2024. Income thresholds for all seven federal tax bracket levels were also revised upward. The top tax rate, which ...

  8. Top 5% of taxpayers would get nearly half the benefit if ...

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    Middle-income households earning between roughly $65,000 and $116,000, on the other hand, would receive a tax cut of about $1,000, or 1.3% of their income. Overall, extending the 2017 tax law ...

  9. Roscoe L. Egger Jr. - Wikipedia

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    He became the second CPA to head the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). [2] While Egger served as Tax Commissioner, the IRS was faced with a number of problems. Tax evasion increased dramatically, the tax code was overly complicated, the IRS's budget was too small, and its computers were overworked and out of date. The disasters of 1985 – in ...