The History of Taxes
A tax needs someone who collects and a record that it was paid, even back in Thebes.
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1.What is a tax, according to the OECD?
A tax needs someone who collects and a record that it was paid, even back in Thebes.
2.What was the Thebes tax receipt written on?
It is more than 2,200 years old, in the Louvre, dated by style to the reign of Ptolemy II.
3.Why did William order the Domesday survey in 1085?
William was short of money; the inspectors even counted cows.
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Sources (6)
- IRS History Timeline (March 2019) (Internal Revenue Service)
- 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Federal Income Tax (Milestone Documents) (U.S. National Archives)
- William Pitt the Younger (Whig/Tory 1783-1801, 1804-1806) (UK Government History Blog (gov.uk))
- Revenue Statistics 2024 - the United States (Länderkurzblatt) (OECD)
- Ostracon, recu de taxe (taxe du chef de la necropole), ODL 303 (Musee du Louvre, Collections)
- What does Domesday Book tell us? (The National Archives, UK, Education)
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