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Congress enacted the United States' first income tax by passing the Revenue Act of 1861, the first year of the Civil War. According to the US Treasury Department, this was a "new direction for [the] Federal tax system," which had been based primarily on "excise taxes and customs duties."
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US Department of the Treasury: History of the US Tax System
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