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A poll tax is a tax of a fixed sum on every liable individual (typically every adult), without reference to income or resources. Various privileges of citizenship, including voter registration or issuance of driving licenses and resident hunting and fishing licenses, were conditioned on payment of poll taxes to encourage the collection of this tax revenue.
[23] [24] Most of the critics had their political base in states like Georgia or South Carolina, quite removed from serious military operations. The most stringent defenders of strong military legislation, on the other hand, were Congressmen and Senators elected from Kentucky and Missouri , virtually exiled from their Union-occupied and ...
Conscientious objection to military taxation (COMT) is a legal theory that attempts to extend into the realm of taxation the concessions to conscientious objectors that many governments allow in the case of conscription, thereby allowing conscientious objectors to insist that their tax payments not be spent for military purposes. Some tax ...
Most retirement income is subject to state income tax in North Carolina, but residents with a taxable income of $47,150 or less are exempt. If your taxable income is between $47,151 and $238,200 ...
Data center tax incentives. House Bill 1192 would have temporarily suspended a state sales tax exemption that sought to incentivize the creation of data centers, or facilities that house computers ...
South Carolina initiated military preparations to resist anticipated federal enforcement, [6] but on March 1, 1833, Congress passed both the Force Bill—authorizing the president to use military forces against South Carolina—and a new negotiated tariff, the Compromise Tariff of 1833, which was satisfactory to South Carolina. The South ...
The newly-created tax holiday would begin on the second Friday in October and last for five days. Here's what legislators had to say about the bill. Republican-backed tax holiday bill for gun ...
The First Conscription Act, passed by the Confederate Congress in April 1862, attempted to address this problem by making all white Southern men between 18 and 35 liable for compulsory military service. [4] Though the South exempted several categories of men in occupations related to transportation, communications, the ministry, teaching and ...