 I'm filling out my tax forms for a new job, i want to get more out of my pay checks now , do i claim 1 or 0? |
| i'm single with no dependents. I would rather get more money out of checks now than in a return. but i don't know if i should do 0 or 1. I think i've done 0 in the past and it took ... |
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 Tax question. My x wants me to give our son as his dependent for 2006 tax? |
even so I had the child all year. He is trying to tell me that for him it will be a 3000 saving but for me only a 200 difference.
I have not been able to go to a tax person yet and think I am ... |
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 When does your employer need to give you your w-2 by? |
I have heard in the past that your employer must send you your w-2 tax forms by January 31. Is this true?
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 How to work out 5% vat? |
im trying to work out the net and 5% vat on £1.00. Is there a formula to work it out?
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 I didn't earn any income last year, do I have to file a tax return? |
| I was a full-time student for all of 2007...the only possible taxable event was that I sold some stock for a small loss (I bought at about $1000 and I sold them for about $900). Any help will be ... |
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 Can my sister claim my son in her taxes? |
| I get ssa for survivours and medical and food stamps for my son and myself.. can my sister claim my son on her taxes? will it affect my benefits?... |
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 Are we getting another one? |
| I have heard rumors that Obama is going to give us another stimulus check, is that true?! Also When we go to file our 2008 taxes do we have to file the stimulus check we got last year? Or do we have ... |
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 All you non smokers? |
were do you think the goverment is going to get all that tax back from baning it in public houses ,the more ppl give up the higher the tax on petrol public transport etc..
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 Anyone receive their stimulus check? |
| If you were supposed to get your check this Friday let us know if you have gotten your check yet. This is just kind of a way to see how they are progressing with the checks. My last two digits are 36 ... |
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 Can donations to corporations be written off on my personal taxes? |
| I am wanting to donate money to help a friend who started a small business. can this be written off on my taxes?... |
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 Can I claim single on my taxes even though I'm married? |
| My wife owes money on student loans and has her tax return garnished every year, I want to keep my return, What should I do?... |
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 My mom stole my Tax Return...Ideas? |
| My mom (who is not the most honest lady out there) filed my claim and took care of my tax rebate for me this year, like she did every year...but when I asked her how much I was getting back she said 1... |
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 Are individuals with at least 7 children/dependents exempt from paying taxes? |
| A bus driver told me that after the birth of his seventh child he was permanently excluded from paying all taxes.... |
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 Is it possible to find out in the UK if a person is paying income tax if u know his name,surname and address? |
| Is it possible to find out if a person is paying income tax in the uk if you know his name,surname and address? What details do you need to know if I want to report anybody to the Inland Revenue O... |
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 What Will They Do If I Go To Court? |
| I was late paying my December installment of my council tax and paid it with the January installment in cash on the 15 Jan ( it should have been paid on ! Dec and 1 Jan) but recieved a Magistrate ... |
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 Is it legal for a company to break into your house and take your things because you're behind on council tax? |
| We are behind a few months on council tax - we don't qualify for any discounts even though my wife is on Incapacity Benefit and I have a low-income part time job and we have two children under ... |
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Taxes go back to the dawn of civilization. Tax collectors are prominently mentioned in the Bible, and they are reported in ancient Egypt and China and India. It is very doubtful that the notion of taxes was invented in one spot, and shipped around the world.
Taxes undoubtedly originated with the earliest clans. Some things were done for common benefit, such as group meals or building communal lodgings. Its a pretty obvious idea that everyone should contribute what they can to things done for the group; and those were the first taxes.
If you are going to organize a community, it becomes pretty clear that certain things are needed for the group -- such as a common meeting lodge. Thus, whole clans were called on to contribute to whatever was being done to serve the common interest.
That would pretty obviously include everyone contributing food and clothing items to the chieftan who was overseeing the community -- hence unable to hunt or to farm, and provide for himeself.
The invention of money almost inescapably leads to the notion of money taxation. Somewhere along the line, nearly every society would see that it is advantageous to collect money to support the leader, and to pay for community needs and benefits, along with sharing crops or results of the hunt with the entire group.
Since food and money were undoubtedly scarce in most societies, some (maybe all) the people would have chosen to keep most of what they had for themselves, giving as little as possible to the ruler. Again, another idea would be obvious, wherever one was in the world -- everyone has to pay a fixed amount, or a fixed portion (percentage) of what they had to the leader. And since few people would be motivated to come forth and hand over their share voluntarily, it would be pretty obvious that the leader needed a force of tax collectors, to collect taxes by force.
There is no particular brilliance in any of these ideas, just as there is no particular brilliance in deciding to have meals at specific times of day or posting guards around the community at night. So we can't say that taxes were an extraordinary inspiration; but rather just the evolution of a process where individuals would share with the group, instead of living just for themselves. |
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During the various reins of the Egyptian Pharaohs tax collectors were known as scribes. During one period the scribes imposed a tax on cooking oil. To insure that citizens were not avoiding the cooking oil tax scribes would audit households to insure that appropriate amounts of cooking oil were consumed and that citizens were not using leavings generated by other cooking processes as a substitute for the taxed oil.
So all the way back then I think |
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TAXATION usually without REPRESENTATION
Since The Last Freeze The oldest high civilization archaeologists have found so far is Sumer in ... which had a system for writing and invented taxation. Learn more about ...
http://www.alloftimeonline.com/Last%20Freeze.htm
Tax World: A History of TaxationA history of taxation and tax... a rich source of information, history, policy, ... A precursor to the modern income tax we know today was invented by the ...
http://www.taxworld.org/History/TaxHistory.htm
Taxation is as old as time itself.
There you are a common peasant in the year 4,000BC. You've got ten sheep and decide to sell one at the nearest town market.
You sell your single sheep and are paid half a pound weight of bronze.
Before you know it along come's the king's tax-collector who demands you hand over two ounces of bronze.
And what do you get for your two ounces of bronze?
You get a fat king who rules without consent of the people, you have soldiers billeted in your house who eat you out of house and home and never pay any bills.
It just gets worse.
Then in the 18thC c1776, when you are sick and tired of paying tax to a foreign fat king, you take up arms etc.
In the same 18thC the British invented 'income tax', apparently this was a temporary tax to help pay for the Nepoleonic Wars. The people were never consulted about this tax or even the war and the wars which followed.
By the 19thC, if you were unfortunate enough to be living here in UK, where you don't even have a vote, you have a PM called Dizzy who proclaimed from the rooftops, "everything is taxable". Yes, even the food in your children's mouths.
The most stupid tax ever invented was called "window tax" [1696-1851] here in UK. You can see the result of this tax in your own town when you look at old houses of the 17th, 18th and 19th C, many of which have windows bricked up.
Blimey! Cannot see a damn thing because of the tax.
Longparish History - Window Tax - In 1696 in the reign of William III another form of taxation came into force this was known as the “Window Tax” and would last until 1851. ...
http://www.longparish.org.uk/history/windowtax.htm
"The best form of taxation is a lottery, since only the willing will pay."
Dr Benjamin Franklin F.R.S. |
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The Rich ;-) |
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mj1112
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the mafia.....its also called extortion....or protection money...if you pay it they let you live...if you dont they lock you up!! |
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customizedsongwriter
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Tax dates back before the Romans before Jesus.
No one can really answer that.
But what we can say is that a Government did. |
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Side note: The IRS was created, along with the Federal Reserve (a private owned bank, if you didn't know), to collect individual taxes to pay the Fed for the money the Government borrowed. The Fed and the IRS are both unconstitutional, but they exist.
The Constitution explicitly gave only Congress the authority to create Gold and Silver backed currency.
The Constitution only gave Congress the authority to tax STATES. Period. Not individuals.
Also true, if IRS taxes are raised, IT DOES NOT CREATE MORE MONEY FOR CONGRESS TO SPEND, IT ALL GOES TO THE FED TO PAY FOR INTEREST ON MONEY ALREADY BORROWED. Just ask Helicopter Ben, he's already told BO that truth in a little room on the side.
The IRS collects taxes to pay for money already borrowed, not to fund anything else. |
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gordan brown acts like he did |
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hhmmmmm
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The Government. |
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smithsvintage21
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a worthless bafoon |
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sarahkatiee
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Dont know, but i dont like them. |
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1861 Congress enacts the Revenue Act of 1861 to pay for what is anticipated to be a short civil war. For the first time an income tax is levied at the Federal level in the United States. The rate of imposition is 3% on all incomes higher than $800 per year. (Revenue Act of 1861)).
1862 Congress enacts a new revenue act introducing for the first time a progressive tax feature. Personal income tax is 3% for income between $ 800 and $ 10,000 while higher incomes are to be taxed at a rate of 5%. A standard deduction of $ 600 is introduced, along with other deductions. Income tax is to be withheld at source by the employer. (Revenue Act of 1862).
1872 The income tax is abolished. (Revenue Act of 1872).
1894 The income tax is reintroduced. (Revenue Act of 1894).
1895 Supreme Court holds the income tax is unconstitutional since it is not apportioned according to the population in each state.
1913 The 36th State ratifies the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution thus rendering constitutional the establishment of an income tax. In October, 1913, the first income tax law is enacted requiring taxes to be paid on all "lawful" income. Less than 1% of the population is required to pay income taxes. (Revenue Act of 1913).
1914 First income tax returns filed on Form 1040. There are 357,515 taxpayers paying a total tax of $ 28 million. Tax per capita of all U.S. inhabitants is twenty-eight cents. |
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Government, to keep the poor people poor! |
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