Free Tax Day E-Cards
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Thoughtful people can find free holiday greeting cards for all kinds of occasions on a variety of internet websites. Personalized cards can be customized, with both graphics and music, to celebrate more events than one might imagine who hasn't visited one of these sites recently. It seems that every month hosts multiple card-sending occasions. Besides honoring traditional events, such as Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, new holidays celebrate special days for fathers-in-law, teachers, nurses, and other relatives and occupations. For that date that strikes dread in many a taxpayer's heart, April 15, free tax day e-cards brighten up the gloomiest, most harried procrastinator still struggling to meet the Internal Revenue Service's midnight deadline. It's a lot of fun both to send and receive free holiday gift cards no matter the occasion. With so many selections to choose from, the sender can find the perfect card for each person in her address book. Major greeting card companies and smaller niche companies offer a lot of choices for free holiday greeting cards on their websites. Some sites offer features that allow customers to set reminder notices so there will never be an excuse, nor a need, to send a belated birthday card again. The truly organized, the person who doesn't put off filling out her income tax returns until 11:59 p.m. on the deadline date, can gloat by sending free tax day e-cards to her less organized family and friends.
Congress first passed the Revenue Act of 1861 to levy a three percent tax on incomes greater than $1,800 to help with the federal government's expenses for the Civil War. Even before the Revenue Act went into effect, in 1862, Congress made reforms that set separate tax rates on a two-tier income schedule. The Revenue Act was repealed in 1972, but Congress passed income tax legislation again in 1894. Only a year later, the United States Supreme Court declared that the legislation was unconstitutional. Not to be deterred from their effort to get more money from the citizenry, Congress proposed an amendment to the United States Constitution on July 2, 1909. Less than four years later, only one more state needed to ratify the proposal for the 16th Amendment to be added to the Constitution. The Wyoming legislature ratified the amendment on February 3, 1913. Requiring a one percent tax on incomes over $1,300 and a six-percent surtax on incomes greater than $500,000, the 16th Amendment affected less than one percent of the population at that time. The first filing deadline was March 1, but this was moved to March 18 in 1918. In 1955, the filing deadline was moved again to April 15. When the date falls on a Saturday, the deadline is extended until the following Monday. However, when April 15 falls on a Sunday, the deadline is extended until April 17. This is because April 16 is Emancipation Day, a holiday celebrated in Washington, D.C. Though Emancipation Day is not a federal holiday, it affects the federal agencies in the capitol city and changes the deadline. These exceptions change the date for emailing free tax day e-cards to one's family and friends.
Taxpayers might be able to find free holiday greeting cards to celebrate Tax Freedom Day. According to a national nonpartisan taxation educational organization founded in 1937, Tax Freedom Day marks the date that the country's annual tax burden has been met. For this year, that date was calculated as being April 23, 2008, three days earlier than in 2007. Credit for the earlier date is attributed to the 2008 economic stimulus rebates that taxpayers are receiving in bank accounts and mailboxes. Taxpayers are paying an average of 30.8% of their income in taxes in 2008. In comparison, Tax Freedom Day was on January 22 in the year 1900 and the percentage of income that went to taxes that year was only 5.9%. A hundred years has made quite a difference in how much income goes to the government. Taxpayers may not enjoy handing over hard-earned money to the government, but Christians know that laws need to be obeyed. The Jewish tax collector who became an apostle told about a time when Jesus' enemies tried to trick Him with sly questions into saying something unlawful about the Roman government. They said: "Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Caesar, or not? But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites? Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? They say unto him, Caesar's. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and unto God the things that are God's. When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way" (Matthew 22:16-22).
Most of the free tax day e-cards are funny, poking fun at the Internal Revenue Service, the hundreds of pages of the agency's tax code, and the harried procrastinator racing to meet the deadline. Like many other free holiday greeting cards, the sender can choose from a large variety of cards with animation and music. Personal messages can be added before the card is sent to one or more recipients. Whatever the occasion, no matter the time of day or night, free holiday greeting cards can be sent to anyone with an email address. Just a few clicks of a mouse will let recipients know that someone was thinking of them.
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