Raleigh NC Accountant
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
1861 – After Lincoln was put in office, the South walks out on Congress and form the Confederate States of America with a rewritten constitution to keep the new government right to tax in check.
1862 – [...]

Raleigh NC CPA
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
“Slavery – the one cause of the Civil War.” – John Stuart Mill, 1862
Can there be a doubtful thoughts about this topic? Certainly the American Civil War was about the slavery issue… was it not? Well [...]

Raleigh NC Accountant
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ah…. finally an event in history obviously about abusive taxes. Was the Boston Tea Party a protest against the British tax on tea, as we were told? No, not at all. The colonies had already been [...]