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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dannic113, post: 1900025, member: 35203&quot;]It wasn&#039;t sales tax as we know it. They were tax stamps (think cigarettes and the small stamps on the packs today) both on sales as well as on tariffs on import/export. The revolution and tax issues from the Boston tea party wasn&#039;t about the tax itself but it was taxation without representation. England kept raising the taxes at will without any input from colonial governors in America. They just felt the effect when their breakfast drink went from 2 cents to 4 overnight. The first known tax was on Whiskey in 1791 and it did cause a revolution of sorts with western frontiersmen called the Whiskey Rebellion in 1974. Yet they remained mostly state and territorial very few federal taxes. Excise taxes were levied in 1860&#039;s during the Civil war and our sales tax of today started in the 1930&#039;s. As for their uses my guess is taxes of some sort or sales/processing of tobacco from the plantations.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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