This article is about the city of Cape Canaveral, Florida. For the geographical feature, see Cape Canaveral. For the site neighboring the Kennedy Space Center, see Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. For the neighboring port, see Port Canaveral. Cape Canaveral is a city in Brevard County, Florida. The population was 9,912 at the 2010 United States Census. It is part of the Palm BayâMelbourneâTitusville Metropolitan Statistical Area.
More energized than demoralized by the Supreme Courtâs invalidation of the 1894 income tax, fiscal reformers mounted a powerful campaign to resuscitate the levy. By 1913, they had engineered ratification of a new constitutional amendment, clearly establishing the federal governmentâs authority to levy an income tax.
Brief History of IRS. Origin. The roots of IRS go back to the Civil War when President Lincoln and Congress, in 1862, created the position of commissioner of Internal Revenue and enacted an income tax to pay war expenses.The income tax was repealed 10 years later.hat same year, the first Form 1040 appeared after Congress levied a 1 percent tax on net personal incomes above $3,000 with a 6 percent surtax on incomes of more than $500,000. In 1918, during World War I, the top rate of the income tax rose to 77 percent to help finance the war effort.