Today, I grief the 100th birthday of the overturning of Article I, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution that explicitly prohibited a general income tax. In its place, Congress ratified 16th amendment, which established the right to impose a Federal income tax on Americans.
A copy of the original "1040 Form" is as follows with its tax rates between 1% and 6%:
A copy of the original "1040 Form" is as follows with its tax rates between 1% and 6%:
After seeing the above "1040 Form" in its total simplicity, don't you yearn for the good old days when you did not need a CPA or a tax attorney to file your income taxes? I know, I do!
1 comment:
Amen to that. I have to pay someone so I can know how much to pay the gov. Sounds like racketeering.
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