1098 E 2023-2024 Form

Instructions and help about 2018 e 1098

The IRS or really its predecessor was created around the time of the Civil War. Prior to the Civil War, all taxation in the United States, at least at the federal level, consisted of external taxes, specifically tariffs. And we had a system in place for administering those tariffs that involved customs officials at ports of entry and so on. In order to finance the Civil War, Congress enacted a series of what we sometimes refer to as internal taxes, property taxes, income taxes and excise taxes imposed inside the United States on good, services, people, et cetera that were already here. Consequently, we needed a different bureaucracy in order to administer those taxes. The predecessor of the Internal Revenue Service was created even though we repealed many of those internal taxes shortly after the end of the Civil War, we left that bureaucracy in place to administer the internal taxes that remained. And the rest is history. Eventually, we adopted the 16th amendment. We created the moder