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A Lesson from History About Taxes, Section Three: Taxation in Ancient Egypt and The Rosetta Stone

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 most seminal Egyptian archaeological discovery in history. The Stone had duplicated text in three different languages: Egyptian hieroglyphs, demotic (also called Egyptian script) and Greek. [...]

A History of Taxation, Part One: Taxation in Ancient Egypt

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 oppressed slavery – that is only the stigma we get from the tale of Moses, which came at a time of turmoil in Egypt. Modern [...]

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