W. Marc Gilfillan
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Mithridates the Great ruled a tiny nation near what is currently known as Turkey. He had an extraordinary ability to arouse discontent among disgruntled taxpayers. In 88 BC he led a rebellion fighting the Romans. By [...]
W. Marc Gilfillan
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Now that we’re moving away from the Greeks, we finally are at the Roman Empire. Historians usually refer to Roman tax policy as “more or less organized robbery” and Roman tax collectors as “a bunch of [...]
W. Marc Gilfillan
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
The island of Rhodes: a gateway to Rome and Greece. Any shipping from the east stopped for restocking or to switch cargo at Rhodes. The harbor of the city, like every other harbor, had a tax [...]
W. Marc Gilfillan
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
The Rosetta Stone, unearthed by Napoleon, was perhaps the single most eye-opening Egyptian archaeological discovery in history. The Stone had the same text in 3 different languages: hieroglyphics, demotic (known as Egyptian script) and Greek. Using [...]
W. Marc Gilfillan
W. Marc Gilfillan, CPA, NC, individual and business CPA and Tax expert, shares about the history of taxes…
Ancient Egypt wasn’t a place of cruel taskmasters and miserable slavery - that’s only the impression we get from the tale of Moses, which formed at a time of turmoil in Egypt. Modern translations of Egyptian [...]