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  2. Sin tax - Wikipedia

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    Sin taxes result in the illegal manufacture, smuggling and/or outright theft of the taxed products, sometimes for personal use but often for sale on the black market. [16] [17] Critics of sin tax argue that it is a regressive tax in nature and discriminates against the lower classes. Sin taxes are often assessed at a flat rate meaning they ...

  3. History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal Capital Gains Tax Collections 1954-2009 history chart. The origins of the income tax on gains from capital assets did not distinguish capital gains from ordinary income. From 1913 to 1921, income from capital gains was taxed at ordinary rates, initially up to a maximum rate of 7 percent. [69]

  4. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Federal income tax rates have been modified frequently. Tax rates were changed in 34 of the 97 years between 1913 and 2010. [157] The rate structure has been graduated since the 1913 act. Total tax revenue (not adjusted for inflation) for the U.S. federal government from 1980 to 2009 compared to the amount of revenue coming from individual ...

  5. Sin taxes - Wikipedia

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  6. Capital gains tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The table Summary of recent history above shows that, although the marginal rate is higher now than at any time since 1998, there is also a substantial bracket on which the tax rate is 0%. Another reason it is hard to prove correlation between the top capital gains rate and total economic output is that changes to the capital gains rate do not ...

  7. Excise tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The tax equals $1.01 per pack of 20 of cigarettes. Federal excise tax revenue from tobacco products peaked in fiscal year 2010 at $17.2 billion after the increase in tobacco product tax rates in the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009. This tax increase, which took effect in April 2009, was the most recent time ...

  8. Legal history of income tax in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tax rates were 3% on income exceeding $600 and less than $10,000, and 5% on income exceeding $10,000. [8] 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]

  9. File:Federal Capital Gains Tax Collections 1954-2009 history ...

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    It is recommended to name the SVG file “Federal Capital Gains Tax Collections 1954-2009 history chart.svg”—then the template Vector version available (or Vva) does not need the new image name parameter.