{"id":6426,"date":"2026-08-05T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T04:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:44:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:44:45","slug":"income-tax-1862","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=6426","title":{"rendered":"Income Tax &#8211; 1862"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>United States levied the first income tax in 1862<\/strong>. Any income over $800 was taxed at 3 percent. Idea: Children\u00a0could translate $800 back then into today\u2019s dollars. They could learn more about the history of the United States income tax at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/ipa\/A0005921.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/ipa\/A0005921.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States levied the first income tax in 1862. Any income over $800 was taxed at 3 percent. Idea: Children\u00a0could translate $800 back then into today\u2019s dollars. They could learn more about the history of the United States income tax at:\u00a0http:\/\/www.infoplease.com\/ipa\/A0005921.html.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4756,5767,976,407],"class_list":["post-6426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4756","tag-august-5","tag-income-tax","tag-united-states","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6426"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22760,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6426\/revisions\/22760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}