If you are married, then you and your spouse can file separate tax returns. The married filing separately (MFS) filing status is generally perceived as the least beneficial of all the filing statuses.
In 1783 Congress decided to create a new capital apart from any state, and in 1787 the framers of the Constitution provided for a capital district. The U.S. capital was originally Philadelphia. Washington D.C. became the new capital on July 16, 1790.
Interesting Facts. 1  New York City was the first capital of the United States after the Constitution was ratified in 1788. 2  On April 30, 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as the nationâs first president at Federal Hall, located on Wall Street. The popular tabloid New York Post was originally established in 1801 as a Federalist newspaper called the New York Evening Post by Alexander Hamilton, an author of the Federalist papers and the nationâs first secretary of the treasury.