A history of sales tax
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FEBRUARY 23, 2023
All hail sales tax! Taxing certain goods dates back as far as 4,000 years. Ancient Egypt taxed cooking oil, for instance. The tax was levied on a product people had to buy and were forbidden to reuse (coincidentally, the Pharaoh had a monopoly on production). Later, Caesar Augustus boosted the rate to 4%.
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