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President Nixon delivering a speech in 1969 around the time the Family Assistance Plan was introduced. The Family Assistance Plan ( FAP ) was a welfare program introduced by President Richard Nixon in August 1969, which aimed to implement a negative income tax for households with working parents.
The Tax Reform Act of 1969 (Pub. L. 91–172) was a United States federal tax law signed by President Richard Nixon on December 30, 1969. Its largest impact was creating the Alternative Minimum Tax , which was intended to tax high-income earners who had previously avoided incurring tax liability due to various exemptions and deductions.
December 29 – The White House announces President Nixon will make progression on a tax reform bill that also increases Social Security benefits by 15% before leaving for a vacation in California. [191] December 30 – President Nixon signs a tax reform bill into law, critiquing measures of the bill in an accompanying statement. [192]
The Revenue and Expenditure Control Act of 1968 is a United States law that created a temporary 10 percent income tax surcharge for both individuals and corporations through June 30, 1969, to help pay for the Vietnam War. It also delayed a scheduled reduction in the telephone and automobile excise tax, causing them to end in 1973 instead of ...
As the US income tax system at the time was highly progressive, the surtax was much higher on those with higher incomes, as a 10% surtax imposed on a tax rate of 20% would result in an overall rate of 22%, and the same surtax imposed on a rate of 50% would result in an overall rate of 55%.
The Tax Foundation recently pegged the proceeds of the 10% tariffs at $300 billion a year. A populist tactic The 1971 episode with Nixon is also evidence of the power of the idea of a tariff to ...
Congress enacted an income tax in October 1913 as part of the Revenue Act of 1913, levying a 1% tax on net personal incomes above $3,000, with a 6% surtax on incomes above $500,000. By 1918, the top rate of the income tax was increased to 77% (on income over $1,000,000, equivalent of $16,717,815 in 2018 dollars [ 24 ] ).
The short-term and long-term capital gains tax rates for the bottom two tax rates, 15% and 28%, respectively, were equal to those tax payers' marginal income tax rates from 1988 until 1997. In 1997, the capital gains tax rates for the bottom two income tax brackets were reduced to 10% and 20% for the 15% and 28% income tax brackets, respectively.