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1997 Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud and time served 1997 Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion 1994 Darryl Strawberry pleads not guilty on tax evasion charges 1994 Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges 1994 Singer Percy Sledge pleads guilty to tax evasion 1992 New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio's veto and lowers sales tax to 6% 1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion 1992 Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax evasion 1992 IRS and Willie Nelson settle on $9M tax bill (of $16.7M) 1991 5% sales tax on consumer goods and services goes into effect in U.S.S.R. 1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise 1990 Cincinnati Red Pete Rose is sentence to 5 months for tax evasion 1990 Cuyahoga County voters approve sin tax to build Cleveland Gateway 1990 Riots began in London over the new poll tax laws 1988 Political cult leader Lyndon LaRouche convicted of tax, mail fraud 1988 Senate votes for major federal tax code changes 1986 Senate joins House of Representatives voting for sweeping tax reforms 1986 House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne on tax evasion 1986 U.S. Senate approves tax reform 1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students 1982 Sun Myung Moon sentenced to 18 months for tax fraud 1982 Sophia Loren jailed in Naples for tax evasion 1982 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion 1980 Studio 54 owners Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager sentenced to 3 years in prison for tax evasion and fined $20,000 1979 Chuck Berry sentenced to 4 months for $200,000 in tax evasion 1979 Chuck Berry pleads guilty to income tax evasion, sentenced to 4 months 1979 Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion 1974 Pieter Y Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer, dies at 95 1973 Vice President Spiro T. Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion and resigns 1973 George Harrison pays 1,000,000 pounds tax on his Bangladesh concert and album 1970 Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect (Wibautstrat tax office), dies 1966 U.S. Supreme Court rules the poll tax unconstitutional 1964 Amendment 24 outlaws poll tax 1964 24th Amendment ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections 1957 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts temporary tax increase 1956 France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria 1953 California introduces sales tax, for education 1948 5 day southern filibuster succeeds in maintaining poll tax 1948 Wally Tax, Dutch guitarist 1943 "Pay-as-you-go" - 1st withholding tax from paychecks 1943 U.S. income tax withholding paycheck deductions authorized 1932 U.S. Federal gas tax enacted 1932 Al Capone, convict of income tax evasion, enters Atlanta Penitentiary 1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion 1931 Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years 1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax 1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers must pay income tax 1921 West Virginia imposes 1st state sales tax 1921 Iowa imposed 1st state cigarette tax 1920 Leona Helmsley, wife of Harry, real estate billionaire/tax cheat 1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon) 1917 Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on corporations 1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%) 1913 Federal income tax takes effect, 16th amendment 1913 16th Amendment ratified, authorizing income tax 1913 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified 1909 16th Amendment approved, power to tax incomes 1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court 1892 Gijsbert Friedhoff, architect, tax office Wibautstraat, Amsterdam 1891 Riot against tax increase in Paramaribo Suriname 1879 Pieter J A Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer 1871 U.S. income tax repealed 1871 Belgium disbands salt tax 1869 Dutch newspaper stamp tax repealed 1868 1st use of tax stamps on cigarettes 1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax 1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university 1862 Federal tax levied on tobacco 1862 U.S. government collects its 1st income tax 1862 1st U.S. income tax (3% of incomes > $600, 5% of incomes > $10,000) 1861 U.S. levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800) 1851 Window tax abolished in Britain 1851 Poll tax levied on Russo-Polish Jews entering Austrian Galicia ends 1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for tax resistance 1846 Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished 1820 Missouri imposes a $1 bachelor tax on unmarried men between 21 and 50 1813 Tax revolt in Amsterdam 1799 Income Tax introduced in UK 1798 1st direct federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves 1787 French government proclaims end to stamp/land tax 1765 People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax 1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists 1751 France sets plan to tax clergymen 1750 Tax revolt in Gorinchem 1750 Tax revolt in Haarlem Neth 1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax 1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax 1722 Peter the Great ends tax on men with beards 1714 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth 1698 Russia's Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards 1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal 1680 Tax revolt in Gorinchem due to tax on cereal 1634 English King Charles I disbands new "Ship Money" tax 1525 Tax revolt in Hertogenbosch

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