| 词汇 | 1040 form |
| 词源 | 1040 form. According to one story, U.S. personal income tax forms are called 1040s because in 1040 a.d. Lady Godiva rode naked through the streets of Coventry, England, protest- ing taxes. Another yarn has it that the infamous forms are so named because in 1040 b.c., Samuel, the last of the prophets, gave in to his people’s demands that he give them a king, yet warned them that a king would require them to pay taxes. But though these tales are as ingenious as some tax deductions, the I.R.S. says “the mundane truth is that the four-digit number happened to be the next available in the forms numbering sys- tem when the 1040 was devised in 1913.” |
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