The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, signed on February 2, 1848, ended the Mexican-American War in favor of the United States.The war had begun almost two years earlier, in May 1846, over a territorial dispute involving Texas.he treaty added an additional 525,000 square miles to United States territory, including the land that makes up all or parts of present-day Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
One month into the tax filing season, the average federal tax refund was $3,120, the IRS said Thursday. 1  As of Feb. 20, the agency said it paid out $125 billion in refunds and processed about 50 million tax returns. 2  And a large majority of those returns - 83% - have qualified for a refund.
More than 118 million individual income tax return filers received a tax refund, which totaled almost $312.8 billion. On average, the IRS spent 41 cents to collect $100 in tax revenue during the fiscal year, matching low-cost results for 2008 and 2001. The IRS examined just under one percent of all tax returns filed and about one percent of all individual income tax returns during fiscal year 2013.