CLINT, TX. CLINT, TEXAS. Clint, also known as Collinsburgh, is on the Southern Pacific Railroad at the intersection of State Highway 20 and Farm Road 1110, sixteen miles southeast of downtown El Paso in southern El Paso County.
The first income tax was instituted by Congress to help pay for the American Civil War. In 1863, the federal government collected the first income tax. This graduated tax was similar to the income tax we pay today. Those who earned $600 to $10,000 per year paid at a rate of 3 percent. Those who earned in excess of $10,000 paid 5 percent. A flat-rate tax was imposed in 1867.
But in 1913 when Congress passed an income tax law after the ratification of the 16th Amendment, the tax burden shifted to the richâat least for a while. Roots of the Income Tax. Although an income tax was proposed as early as 1812, Congress did not enact one until 1861, when the Civil War began.ith the income tax increases, federal receipts climbed from under $1 billion in 1917 to nearly $4 billion in 1918. At war's end, about 60 percent of federal tax money came from the income tax. It replaced tariff duties and excise taxes as the main source of revenue for the U.S. government.