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It’s pretty commonly known that the only reason American citizens have to calculate their own taxes is because companies that help us calculate those taxes have lobbied politicians to keep it that way. But then why and how did the system come to work like that in the first place?

by /u/RiceEatingSavage in /r/AskHistorians

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