CLINT, TX. CLINT, TEXAS. Clint, also known as Collinsburgh, is on the Southern Pacific Railroad at the intersection of State Highway 20 and Farm Road 1110, sixteen miles southeast of downtown El Paso in southern El Paso County.
The first income tax was instituted by Congress to help pay for the American Civil War. In 1863, the federal government collected the first income tax. This graduated tax was similar to the income tax we pay today. Those who earned $600 to $10,000 per year paid at a rate of 3 percent. Those who earned in excess of $10,000 paid 5 percent. A flat-rate tax was imposed in 1867.
For more than four decades in the early 19th century, the federal government had no domestic taxes at all. It raised most of its money by taxing imports and selling public land. The First Income Taxes. The federal government imposed its first income tax in 1861 to pay the mounting costs of the Civil War. The war ended in 1865, and the income tax was repealed in 1872, once the debts incurred during the war had been paid. The U.S. went back to excise taxes until 1894, when Congress passed a second income tax.