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Far reaching in its social as well as its economic impact, the income tax amendment became part of the Constitution by a curious series of events culminating in a bit of political maneuvering that went awry. The financial requirements of the Civil War prompted the first American Income Tax in 1861. At first, Congress placed a flat 3-percent tax on all incomes over $800 and later modified this principal to include a graduated tax. Congress repealed the income tax in 1872, but the concept did not disappear.

After the Civil War, the growing industrial and financial markets of the Eastern United States generally prospered. But the farmers of the South and West suffered from low prices for their farm products, while they were forced to pay high prices for manufactured goods. Throughout the 1860?s, 1870?s, and 1880?s, farmers formed such political organizations as the Grange, the Greenback party, the National Farmers Alliance, and the People?s (Populist) Party. All these groups advocated many reforms considered radical for the times, including a graduated income tax.

In 1894, as part of a high tariff bill, Congress enacted a 2-percent tax on income over $4,000. The tax was almost immediately struck down by a five-to-four decision of the Supreme Court, even though the Court has upheld the constitutionality of the Civil War Tax as recently as 1881.


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Although farm organizations denounced the Court?s decision as a prime example of the alliance of government and business against the farmer, a general return of prosperity around the turn of the Century soften the demand for reform. Democratic Party Platforms under the leadership of three-time Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryant, however, consistently included an income tax plank, and the progressive wing of the Republican Party also espoused the concept.

In 1909 progressives in Congress again attached a provision for an income tax to a tariff bill. Conservative, hoping to kill the idea for good, proposed a constitutional amendment enacting such a tax; they believed an amendment would never receive ratification by three-fourths of the states. Much to their surprise, the amendment was ratified by one state legislature after another, and on February 25, 1913, with the certification by Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, the 16th amendment took effect. Yet in 1913, due to generous exemptions and deductions, less than 1 percent of the population paid income taxes at a rate of only 1% of net income.

The full potential of the income tax for revenue and for the redistribution of wealth was realized for the first time during the New Deal. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared ?our revenue laws have operated in many ways to the unfair advantage of the few, and have done little to prevent an unjust concentration of wealth and economic power.? The Revenue act of 1935 popularly called the Wealth Tax Act, went a long way toward remedying the evils described. It provided steeply graduated personal income taxes up to 75% on income in excess of $5 million. Wealthy Americans deplored the leveling effect of a graduated income tax and called President Roosevelt a ?traitor to his own class.? Almost immediately, income tax evasion became an important area of criminal activity.

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The income tax did not directly affect most Americans until World War II: In 1939 only 5 percent of Americans paid federal income taxes. But the Revenue act of 1942 raised tax rates, lowered exemptions, and created the Victory Tax of 5 percent on incomes over $624, broadening the income tax base considerably. The new payroll withholding tax was the greatest change for the majority of Americans. The ?pay-As-You-Go? tax plan, developed by Beardsley Ruml, the treasurer of the R. H. Macy department store, was adopted in the Current Tax Payment Act of 1943. The result of the new tax plan was that over 74 percent of Americans were paying federal income taxes by 1945.

The income tax has become the most important source of federal revenue. Without it, the social reforms of the 1930?s, the financial costs of World War II, national defense during the cold war, and the programs of the ?Great Society? of the 1960s would have been impossible.? --- Published For the National Archives and Records Administration by the National Archives Trust Fund Board 1995

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