The Prosperity Experience
  May 1, 2006 

Cool Facts and Trivia

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Cool Facts

If you were to lay out the 8 billion pages of forms and instructions the IRS sends out each year end to end, they would stretch 28 times around the earth.

The world's first income tax was established in England in 1404 A.D. It was so hated that Parliament later had all records of it burned. 

The highest taxing country in the world is Sweden. The lowest taxing country is Mexico. The United States is the 5th lowest taxed country. 

Cool Trivia

Tax Trivia

Q: What Country placed taxes on beards and souls?

Find the answer in "It's Tax Refund Season!"

Gambling Trivia

Q: How did the expression "rolling the bones" occur?

Find the answer in "May Lottery Buzz"

Q: How did the game of 21 get its nickname, blackjack?

Find the answer in "Money Wise: Financial Q & A"!


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