FYI: SAY “1040” and most of us think of the income tax returns we file each year on April 15. But it’s only because of chance that we fill out 1040s, instead of 1039s or 1041s: That number was up next in the sequential numbering of forms developed by the Bureau of Internal Revenue, the predecessor of today’s IRS.
It all began on Jan. 5, 1914, when the Department of the Treasury unveiled the new Form 1040 for tax year 1913. The feds set March 1, 1914—less than two months away—as the deadline for filing the form with the local tax collector’s office.
Regards,
Ted
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