Facts about taxes that make you stop and shake your head

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  • Alabama has a 10 cent tax on a deck of playing cards.
  • “Jock tax” – Levied on athletes who earn an income competing in a particular city or state. California first levied this tax on athletes from Chicago in 1991 after the Chicago Bulls beat the LA Lakers in the 1991 NBA Finals. What a bunch of sore losers.
  • Blueberries from Maine are subject to specific tax too, anyone who grows, purchases, sells, handles, or processes blueberries in Maine has to pay a penny and a half tax per pound.
  • “Fountain soda drinks” in Chicago are taxed at 9%, if it comes in a bottle or can then it’s only taxed at 3%.
  • Only about 1% of the nation's tax revenue is obtained through audits; 98% of the revenue is obtained through "voluntary" compliance from people who have not been audited.
Who really knows where the money goes? 
.......It does depend on who you ask.


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Belly up and be privy on the divvy
Tax History & Facts
  • The first income tax ever was in 1404 in England.
  • The first property tax in the United States was in 1798 and it was on land, houses, and slaves.
  • The first US income tax started during in the Civil War to help raise money back in 1862.
  • The 16th Amendment, ratified in 1913, established the first permanent US income tax.
  • Four states rejected the amendment: Connecticut, Florida, Rhode Island, and Utah.
  • Two never considered/discussed it: Pennsylvania, Virginia
  • The IRS sends out over 8 billion pages in forms and instructions every single year, that’s nearly 300,000 trees (now they use recycled paper).
  • The easiest form, the 1040EZ, has thirty-three pages of instructions.
Chad Charles Taxes