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A Short Timeline of Tax Practices of the US, Part 3

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
So the question remains, what went wrong with taxes in the US?
US tax makers have been reaping what they have sown for a long time. Our honor system has been trumped by a system in [...]

The History of Tax Law, Part 4: Taxes and The Isle of Rhodes

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
The island of Rhodes: a linkage to Rome and Greece. All shipped goods from the east halted for restocking or to transfer cargo at Rhodes. The harbor of Rhodes, similar to all other harbors, had a [...]

A Lesson from History About Taxation, Section Three: Taxes in Egypt and The Rosetta Stone

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
The Rosetta Stone, discovered by Napoleon, was possibly the most seminal Egyptian archaeological find to date. The Stone had duplicated text in three different languages: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic (known as Egyptian script) and Greek. Using the [...]

A Brief Timeline of Taxation Practices of the US, Chapter One

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Between 1868 until 1913, about ninety percent of the national government’s income was derived from taxes on alcohol and tobacco. While the Civil War was going on there was a brief income tax, but it was [...]

A History of Taxes, Part 1: Taxes and Ancient Egypt

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ancient Egypt wasn’t a place of terrible oppressors and oppressed slavery - that is only the impression we get from the tale of Exodus, which came at a time of unrest in Egypt. Modern translations of [...]

The Lesson in Taxation Practices, Section 9: Tax Law, the Slavery Issue, and the Civil War

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
“Slavery - the one cause of the Civil War.” - John Stuart Mill, 1862
Could there be a doubt about it? Certainly the American Civil War was about slavery… wasn’t it? Well actually, one of the most [...]

The History of Tax Practices, Part Eight: Tax Law and The Boston Tea Party

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ah…. now we have an event in history obviously about abusive taxes. Was the Boston Tea Party a protest against the British tax on tea, as we were all taught? No, not at all. The colonies [...]

A Lesson in Taxation, Part Six: Tax Law and End of the Romans

W. Marc Gilfillan

W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Mithridates the Great was the leader of a tiny nation near what is currently known as Turkey. He had an extraordinary ability to arouse discontent among disgruntled taxpayers. In 88 BC he led a civil war [...]

The Lesson in Tax Law, Chapter Six: Taxation and The End of the Roman Empire

W. Marc Gilfillan

W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Mithridates the Great ruled a small nation near what is currently known as Turkey. He had an amazing power to rouse discontent among disgruntled taxpayers. In 88 BC he led a civil war fighting the Romans. [...]

A Lesson in Taxes, Section 4: Taxes and The Isle of Rhodes

W. Marc Gilfillan

W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
The isle of Rhodes: a gateway to Rome and Greece. All shipped goods from the east stopped for supplies or to transfer cargo at Rhodes. The port of the island, similar to all other harbors, had [...]