There are more words in the US Tax Code than there are in the Bible.

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In April 2022, the US Government collected a record $868 billion dollars in taxes.

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The 16th Amendment to the Constitution gave Congress the power to levy taxes on individual income. Wyoming was the last state to ratify the amendment as the threat of war loomed in 1913.

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The Revenue Act of 1862 created the agency that would later become the Internal Revenue Service.

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