EIGroup Taxes

Date	Event	Action
1986-10-22	President Reagan signs into law the Tax Reform Act of 1986. In an attempt to remain revenue neutral, the act called for a $120 billion increase in business taxation and a corresponding decrease in individual taxation over a five-year period.	profile
1913-02-03	The Sixteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified authorizing a graduated income tax. "The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration ...	profile
1861-08-05	The U.S. government issues its first income tax: 3% of all incomes over US $800. It will be rescinded in 1872.	profile
1794-08-07	George Washington calls out the militias of several states and leads a force of 12,900 to suppress the "Whiskey Rebellion" in response to a mob revolt in Allegheny County, PA against the US government's 1791 excise tax on whiskey.	profile
1794-08-01	Settlers in the Monongahela Valley of western Pennsylvania are now in open rebellion against a federal tax on liquor and distilled drinks. Thousands begin to move toward Pittsburg,	profile
1774-06-01	The Boston Port Bill goes into effect, which closes Boston Harbor until reparations were made for the tea that had been destroyed in the Boston Tea Party.	profile
1770-04-12	British Parliament repeals the importation duties of the Townshend Act on all materials except tea.	profile
1767-11-20	Townshend Acts goes into effect.	profile
1767-10-01	Bostonians decide to reinstate a boycott of English luxury items.	profile
1767-07-02	British Parliament approves the Townshed Acts, proposed by Chancellor of the Exchequer Charles Townshend to be importation duties on glass, paint, paper and tea.	profile
1766-04-01	News of the repeal of the Stamp Act results in celebrations in the colonies and a relaxation of the boycott of imported English trade goods.	profile
1766-03-18	British parliament repeals the heavily resisted Stamp Act.	profile
1765-11-23	The citizens of Frederick County, MD refuse to pay England's Stamp tax.	profile
1765-11-01	Business and legal transactions in the colonies cease as the Stamp Act goes into effect with nearly all of the colonists refusing to use the stamps. In New York City, violence breaks out as a mob burns the royal governor in effigy, harrasses.	profile
1765-11-01	The Stamp Act goes into effect in the American colonies.	profile
1765-03-22	In an effort to defray the cost of maintaining a military presence, the British Parliament unanimously passes the Stamp Act requiring all legal documents, newspapers, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.	profile
1764-04-05	The Sugar Act	profile