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Federal Income Tax

United States · Economy / Taxation. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1913

Woodrow Wilson3 October 1913

Washington · Economy / Taxation

The federal government begins collecting income tax under the newly ratified Sixteenth Amendment.

Names involved

Woodrow Wilson

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