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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ah…. now we have a historical event obviously about abusive taxation. Was the Boston Tea Party a protest concerning the British tax on tea, as we were told? No, not at all. The colonies had continuously [...]
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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
There has been no other revolution that was more solidly rooted in tax problems. Tax issues didn’t just cause it, but helped unify the unorganized and squabbling colonies. However, maybe not precisely the way you might [...]
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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Mithridates the Great ruled a small country near what is currently known as Turkey. He had the extraordinary power to create rebellion among unhappy taxpayers. In 88 BC he led a civil war against the Romans. [...]
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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Finally moving away from the Greeks, we finally are at the Roman Empire. Scholars often speak of Roman taxation as “more or less organized stealing” and Roman tax collectors as “a band of thugs.” However, Roman [...]
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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
The city of Rhodes: a linking to Rome and Greece. All shipping from the east halted for restocking or to switch cargo at Rhodes. The harbor at Rhodes, similar to every other harbor, had a tax [...]
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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
The Rosetta Stone, unearthed by Napoleon, was perhaps the single most important Egyptian archaeological discovery in history. The Stone had the same writing in 3 different languages: hieroglyphics, demotic (known as Egyptian script) and Greek. Using [...]
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W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ancient Egypt wasn’t a place of cruel taskmasters and miserable slavery - that is only the impression we get from the tale of Exodus, which came at a time of unrest in Egypt. Actual translations of [...]
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