Taxes!
While the National Archives does not collect or hold IRS tax forms or returns for individuals or entities, it does hold a wealth of material about taxes.
Prologue Articles
Income Tax Records of the Civil War Years
1798 Federal Direct Tax Records for Connecticut
Public Program
Researcher Talk—Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics and the Limits of American Liberalism
Jury's guilty verdict in Al Capone's tax evasion case, October 17, 1931. (National Archives Identifier 628966)
Joint Resolution Proposing the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. National Archives Identifier 1408918)
"This hurts me more than it hurts you," cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 1937. (National Archives Identifier 6012171)
1913 Income Tax Form 1040. (National Archives, General Records of the Department of the Treasury; RG 56)
"A real sea serpent," cartoon by Clifford Berryman, 1937. (National Archives Identifier 6012166)
President Ronald Reagan addresses the nation from the Oval Office on tax reduction legislation, July 27, 1981. (National Archives Identifier 12008442)
Poster encouraging early filing of income taxes, ca. 1945. National Archives Identifier 516201).
Historical Video
“Right on the Button,” an IRS film on data processing, a "new dimension" in tax administration.
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