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In a recent email news post I made the distinction that the Haiti disaster is now a qualified disaster says the IRS (http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=218615,00.html).
And I mentioned in that email, [...]

Raleigh NC Tax Preparation
A few days ago in a email news post I made reference to the fact that the natural disaster that occurred in Haiti is currently a qualified disaster says the IRS (http://www.irs.gov/newsroom/article/0,,id=218615,00.html).
I said in the email that there are rumors that said people are able to make a deduction for contributions to [...]

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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 of Congress and create the Confederacy with a new constitution to curtail the power of their newly formed country to tax.
1862 - The first US income [...]

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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
From 1868 to 1913, almost ninety percent of the national government’s income was gotten from taxes on whiskey and tobacco. During the Civil War the government instituted a short income tax, but it was not until [...]

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 Our honor system has been replaced by a system in which every tax payer [...]

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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 a doubtful thoughts concerning this topic? Certainly the American Civil War was about slavery… was it not? Well actually, one [...]

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 getting away from the Greeks, we now are at the Romans. Scholars often refer to Roman taxation as “more or less legal robbery” and Roman tax men as “a bunch of robbers.” [...]

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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 [...]

Raleigh NC Tax Preparation
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 new constitution to curtail the power of their new government to tax.
1862 - The beginning [...]

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 linking to Rome and Greece. All shipping from the east halted for supplies or to switch cargo at Rhodes. The harbor at Rhodes, like every other harbor, had a tax on [...]