Get 1040 (1994) - Tax History Project

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1862 - President Lincoln signed into law a revenue-raising measure to help pay for Civil War expenses. The measure created a Commissioner of Internal Revenue and the nation's first income tax. It levied a 3 percent tax on incomes between $600 and $10,000 and a 5 percent tax on incomes of more than $10,000.

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The average tax rate rose to 13.4 percent for 1992, and continued to increase until reaching a level of 14.1 percent for 1994. The large in- crease in the average tax rate for 1993 (0.5 percentage points) coincided with the increased tax rates beginning with that tax year.