Form 1040 (1864) [pdf]

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Post by earksiinni » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 12:00 AM UTC

Re: Form 1040 (1864) [pdf]

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Post by gravypod » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 2:12 AM UTC

I would love to see a rendered timeline of the history of these forums and a year by year highlighted diff. It would be cool to see what the explanation was. I'm sure there were many interesting reasons for additional fields that we don't know of today.

Re: Form 1040 (1864) [pdf]

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Post by omoikane » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 3:14 AM UTC

Looks like you can find this page by going to

https://www.irs.gov/prior-year-forms-and-instructions

Then sort by "revision date". 1864 seemed to be an outlier among that list, everything else is 1913 or later.

Re: Form 1040 (1864) [pdf]

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Post by fsmv » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 4:46 AM UTC

We really had a flat tax rate then? Those mean the poorer pay the majority of the total taxes.

Re: Form 1040 (1864) [pdf]

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Post by kryptiskt » Thu, Jul 18, 2024, 7:28 AM UTC

fsmv wrote: post #4

We really had a flat tax rate then? Those mean the poorer pay the majority of the total taxes.

There was a $600 deduction, so common laborers didn't pay any income tax.