Last Week in Payroll: Keeping Up with Taxes
ThomsonReuters
MARCH 22, 2021
The legislation levied a direct tax on the American Colonies in an effort to pay off debts and defend new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War. Shortly thereafter, colonists raised the issue of taxation without representation in protest and within a year’s time the British government repealed the Stamp Act tax.
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