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Income Tax Help

Tax Information and Help:

Miscellaneous tax information from our staff
1040.com - Tax Information for Everyone
IRS Taxpayer Help and Education
SmartMoney Tax Guide
Tax and Accounting Sites Directory
Yahoo! Tax Center

E-Filing:

Electronic filing of income taxes may be done by:

using an authorized e-file provider (see list)
using your personal computer and tax software (such as TurboTax) -- The Library does not provide this software or have it on the Library computers.

The Library does not offer e-filing service or assistance in e-filing on web sites. If you wish to file electronically, contact one of the providers listed The Library is not liable for taxes filed electronically using the Library computers.

Interesting Tax Facts

The Gettysburg Address is 269 words. The Declaration of Independence is 1,337 words. The Holy Bible is 773,000 words. However, the tax law has grown from 11,400 words in 1913 to over 7 million words today.
The Articles of Confederation, adopted in 1781, did not have a nationwide tax system. Instead it relied on donations from the states. This did not work.
In 1916 Congress deleted the word "lawful" before the word "income", making illegal income taxable.
The Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 brought the top tax bracket down to 50%. Previously it had been as high as 94%.
April 15 is officially tax day, but it is also: Leonardo da Vinci's birthday, the day Abraham Lincoln died, the day General Electric was incorporated, the day the Titanic sank and the day that McDonald's served its first hamburger.