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Bus/Financial - Accounting / Accounting and Taxation | | English term or phrase: BIR | | This is something that is provided in an excel file. No context, except it's about accounting and/or taxation. The closes I get is Bureau of Internal Revenue, but that's of the Phillipines. This one should be in the US. Can anyone help? Thanks! |
|  Fang ShengKudoZ activityQuestions: 49 ( 1 open) ( 2 closed without grading) Answers: 186
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| | Bureau of Internal Revenue | Explanation:
http://www.answers.com/topic/u-s-internal-revenue-service?ca...
HISTORY
... The amendment gave Congress the power to levy an income tax, which was collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). The latter had been created in 1877 to collect the few types of taxes that existed at the time, and as America entered World War I, its level of activity increased dramatically. In 1918, the top income tax rate reached a staggering 77 percent, but dropped again to 24 percent in 1929, only to rise again during the Great Depression. The coming of the Second World War brought with it the system of payroll withholding still in place today....
看来 BIR 是 IRS 的前身。 |
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Wenjer Leuschel
Taiwan
Local time: 05:19
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2 hrs confidence:   peer agreement (net): +4 | bir Bureau of Internal Revenue
Explanation:
http://www.answers.com/topic/u-s-internal-revenue-service?ca...
HISTORY
... The amendment gave Congress the power to levy an income tax, which was collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR). The latter had been created in 1877 to collect the few types of taxes that existed at the time, and as America entered World War I, its level of activity increased dramatically. In 1918, the top income tax rate reached a staggering 77 percent, but dropped again to 24 percent in 1929, only to rise again during the Great Depression. The coming of the Second World War brought with it the system of payroll withholding still in place today....
看来 BIR 是 IRS 的前身。
| Wenjer Leuschel
Taiwan
Local time: 05:19
Native speaker of:  Chinese
PRO pts in category: 20
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