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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Between 1868 to 1913, about ninety percent of the federal government’s revenue was derived from tax on alcohol and tobacco. While the Civil War was going on the government instituted a short income tax, but it [...]
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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
Can there be any doubt concerning it? Of course the American Civil War was about slavery… was it not? Well actually, one [...]
Raleigh NC Tax Preparation
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ah…. finally an event in history clearly about oppressive taxation. Was the Boston Tea Party a protest against the British tax on tea, as we were all taught? No, not one bit. The colonies had [...]
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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
No modern revolution that was more solidly based in taxation. Taxation not only caused it, but assisted in providing unity for the unorganized and squabbling colonies. However, probably not precisely the way you might imagine. If [...]
W. Marc Gilfillan
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Now that we are moving away from the Greeks, we finally come to the Romans. Scholars usually refer to Roman taxation as “more or less legal robbery” and Roman tax collectors as “a bunch of robbers.” [...]
Raleigh NC CPA
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
1861 - After Lincoln was elected, southerners walk out on Congress and create the Confederate States of America with a rewritten constitution to sustain the newly formed government right to tax in check.
1862 - The first [...]
Raleigh NC Tax Preparation
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 [...]
W. Marc Gilfillan
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 [...]
W. Marc Gilfillan
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 [...]
Raleigh NC Accountant
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 [...]