That is the first I have heard of that.
The alliance between corporations and government goes way back.
Fixed.
“The alliance between corporations and government goes way back.”
This wasn’t an alliance of Wards and the government. It was more an insight from the private sector getting absorbed by the Treasury Dept. Montgomery Ward’s insight filtered through many layers before it ended up in the Tax Collection Act of 1943
Wards had been using employee withholding in their company for some time and knew that it saved time and money for recurring payments- it may have been for the company health plan, Montgomery Wards was one of the first companies to offer health insurance to their employees, in 1910.
WWII was the first time that income tax affected the public at large. It went from being a “class tax” to a “mass tax”. In 1941 only 8 million income tax returns were filed. By 1943 it had risen to 35 million.
The best method of collecting the tax was debated by Congress for a couple of years before withholding became law.