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In 1878, a federal telephone excise tax was introduced as a "war tax" to help pay for the Spanish–American War, but was repealed in 1902. [2] In 1914, it was reinstated as part of the Emergency Internal Revenue Tax Act, after President Wilson called on Congress to raise an additional $100 million due to World War I. [1]
The Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (Ch. 1, 38 Stat. 785) was a United States federal law that regulated and taxed the production, importation, and distribution of opiates and coca products. The act was proposed by Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York and was signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 17, 1914. [1] [2]
Wilson signed the Revenue Act of 1913 into law on October 3, 1913. ... The provision was a precursor to what is now Internal Revenue Code ... Hoffmann, I. Newton (1914).
This tax was repealed and replaced by another income tax in the Revenue Act of 1862. [9] After the war when the need for federal revenues decreased, Congress (in the Revenue Act of 1870) let the tax law expire in 1873. [10] However, one of the challenges to the validity of this tax reached the United States Supreme Court in 1880. In Springer v.
May 8, 1914: Smith–Lever Act ... January 12, 1983: Internal Revenue Code of 1954 and Social Security Act, ... November 2, 1983: Martin Luther King Jr. Day law, ...
The first revenue stamps in the United States were used briefly during colonial times, among the most notable usage involved the Stamp Act.Long after independence, the first revenue stamps printed by the United States government were issued in the midst of the American Civil War, prompted by the urgent need to raise revenue to pay for the great costs it incurred.
2nd: December 1, 1913 – October 24, 1914 3rd : December 7, 1914 – March 3, 1915 The 63rd United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, composed of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives .
The text of the Internal Revenue Code as published in title 26 of the U.S. Code is virtually identical to the Internal Revenue Code as published in the various volumes of the United States Statutes at Large. [3] Of the 50 enacted titles, the Internal Revenue Code is the only volume that has been published in the form of a separate code.