President Donald Trump pitched the idea of eliminating the federal income tax entirely to instead tariff and tax foreign ...

We have an income tax as opposed to a tariff in part to deal with the mind of the South in 1913—yet the income tax revenue enabled revenue-destructive tariffs.

Here’s a look at the history of presidents and ... federal government started collecting income taxes back in the early 1900s ...

But while taxes have been eminent, they've been far from consistent, especially in the United States. The tax plan has undergone a series of reforms and changes over the years, tracing its roots ...

And that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking." The first federal income tax was passed on Feb. 25, 1913, as part of the 16th Amendment. This gave ...