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This Day in Legal History: Revenue Act of 1862
On this day in legal history, July 1, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1862, one of the most important financing measures of the Civil War. The Union war effort required enormous amounts of money, and Congress could no longer rely only on tariffs, loans, and traditional sources of federal revenue. The act created the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the direct predecessor of today’s Internal Revenue Service.
This new office gave the federal government an administrative structure for assessing and collecting…
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