The General Assembly of the part of Virginia that was one of the
Confederate States of America continued to collect taxes just as it did
before and after.

You can try go get your hands on the microfilm of Virginia session laws
that was issued a great many years ago in a series entitled Records of
the States of the United States. It includes legislative journals and
what were called the session laws, the volumes published annually that
the assembly had printed after each session of the legislature. It'll
include the laws levying taxes for the coming year. The original volumes
are very scarce and hard to find, but the film is probably available on
Interlibrary Loan.

They weren't Confederate taxes; they were state taxes. The General
Assembly of the part of Virginia that was one of the United States of
America during the Civil War did precisely the same thing.

As a curious note, though, somehow the Confederate state of Virginia
managed its finances so efficiently or sloughed them off on the
Confederacy that in March 1864 the assembly suspended the collection of
taxes for one year.

Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Margie Puckett Barton
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Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Confederate Tax and State Tax 1863 to 1869

How was the amount of Confederate Tax determined.

I have an estate audit showing a person paid $364.03 State Tax in 1863,
how can I find out why the state tax was collected.
Thanks,
Margie

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