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The tax information return most familiar to the greatest number of people is the Form W-2, which reports wages and other forms of compensation paid to employees. There are also many forms used to report non-wage income, and to report transactions that may entitle a taxpayer to take a credit on an individual tax return.
Tax return laws generally prohibit disclosure of any information gathered on a state tax return. [10] Likewise, the federal government may not (with certain exceptions) disclose tax return information without the filer's permission, [11] and each federal agency is also limited in how it can share such information with other federal agencies. [10]
Withheld income taxes are treated by employees as a payment on account of tax due for the year, [7] which is determined on the annual income tax return filed after the end of the year (federal Form 1040 series, and appropriate state forms). Withholdings in excess of tax so determined are refunded.
The Income Tax Act, 1961, and the Income Tax Rules, 1962, require citizens to file their tax returns with the Income Tax Department at the end of every financial year and this form is a part of the filing process as specified by the Government of India. The due date for filing return with the Income Tax Department of India is 31 July every year.
With respect to the federal income tax on individuals, the 1954 Code imposed a progressive tax with 24 income brackets applying to tax rates ranging from 20% to 91%. For example, the following is a schedule showing the federal marginal income tax rate imposed on each level of taxable income of a single (unmarried) individual under the 1954 Code:
Despite this, individual income tax revenue only dropped from 8.7 to 8.5% of GDP over that time, and total federal revenue was 18.5% of GDP in both 1979 and 2007, above the postwar average of 18%. [114] Tax code changes have dropped millions of lower earning people from the federal income tax rolls in recent decades.
The first individual income tax return Form 1040 under the 1913 [158] law was four pages long. In 1915, some Congressmen complained about the complexity of the form. [159] In 1921, Congress considered but did not enact replacement of the income tax with a national sales tax.
Internal Revenue Code section 6109(d) provides: "The social security account number issued to an individual for purposes of section 205(c)(2)(A) of the Social Security Act [codified as 42 U.S.C. § 405(c)(2)(A)] shall, except as shall otherwise be specified under regulations of the Secretary [of the Treasury or his delegate], be used as the ...