While instituting the largest tariff increase in modern history, Trump claimed that the income tax was passed for “reasons ...

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As Americans file their taxes this tax season, the Trump administration threatens to unravel the modern fiscal state.

The U.S. first implemented a progressive income tax system in 1862 to fund the Civil War, but the modern framework took shape with the 16th Amendment in 1913. The amendment gave the federal ...

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This was not the first income tax effort, however. For a few short years during and after the Civil War, the United States imposed its first tax on income to help fund the massive costs of the war.