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  2. Taxation of digital goods - Wikipedia

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    Digital goods are software programs, music, videos or other electronic files that users download exclusively from the Internet. [1] Some digital goods are free, others are available for a fee. The taxation of digital goods and/or services, sometimes referred to as digital tax and/or a digital services tax, is gaining popularity across the globe.

  3. History of taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The history of taxation in the United States begins with the colonial protest against British taxation policy in the 1760s, leading to the American Revolution. The independent nation collected taxes on imports ("tariffs"), whiskey, and (for a while) on glass windows. States and localities collected poll taxes on voters and property taxes on ...

  4. Tariff in United States history - Wikipedia

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    Tariffs and excise taxes were authorized by the United States Constitution and recommended by the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton in 1789 to tax foreign imports and set up low excise taxes on whiskey and a few other products to provide the Federal Government with enough money to pay its operating expenses and ...

  5. Taxation in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia

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    Taxation in Puerto Rico consists of taxes paid to the United States federal government and taxes paid to the Government of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.Payment of taxes to the federal government, both personal and corporate, is done through the federal Internal Revenue Service (IRS), while payment of taxes to the Commonwealth government is done through the Puerto Rico Department of Treasury ...

  6. Taxation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    U.S. federal government tax receipts as a percentage of GDP from 1945 to 2015. 2010 to 2015 data are estimated. The federal income tax enacted in 1913 included corporate and individual income taxes. It defined income using language from prior laws, incorporated in the Sixteenth Amendment, as "all income from whatever source derived". The tax ...

  7. Free File Alliance - Wikipedia

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    The Free File Alliance is a group of tax preparation companies which operate a public-private partnership with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to provide free electronic tax filing services under the IRS Free File program to United States taxpayers meeting certain guidelines. [1] The IRS stipulates filers must have an adjusted gross income ...

  8. Fortune 500 Companies That Haven’t Paid Federal Taxes Recently

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    The Rest of the List Sanmina-SCI: Taxes Paid: $0 ABM Industries: Taxes Paid: $0 Andersons: Taxes Paid: -$1 million AK Steel Holding: Taxes Paid: -$1 million Cliffs Natural Resources: Taxes Paid ...

  9. Tax returns in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Tax returns, in the more narrow sense, are reports of tax liabilities and payments, often including financial information used to compute the tax. A very common federal tax form is IRS Form 1040 . A tax return provides information so that the taxation authority can check on the taxpayer's calculations, or can determine the amount of tax owed if ...