Posts Tagged ‘tax return’

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

W. Marc Gilfillan

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 [...]

The History of Taxation, Chapter 5: Taxation and The Romans

W. Marc Gilfillan

W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Finally moving away from the Greeks, we now come to the Romans. Scholars often speak of Roman tax policy as “more or less organized robbery” and Roman tax men as “a band of thugs.” But Roman [...]

The History of Taxes, Chapter 3: Tax Law in Egypt and The Rosetta Stone

W. Marc Gilfillan

W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
The Rosetta Stone, unearthed by Napoleon, was perhaps the absolute most seminal Egyptian archaeological find to date. The Stone had duplicated text in 3 different languages: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic (Egyptian script) and Greek. Using the Greek [...]

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

W. Marc Gilfillan

W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ancient Egypt wasn’t a land of cruel taskmasters and miserable slavery - that’s simply the stigma we get from the story of Moses, which came at a time of turmoil in Egypt. Actual translations of Egyptian [...]