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Who was the first American president to pay personal income tax on his presidential salary?

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Who was the first American president to pay personal income tax on his presidential salary?
posted May 8, 2020 by Ujjwal Mehra

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Warren Harding
In 1923 Harding paid tax on his 1922/23 presidential salary, having in 1921 effectively killed a proposed bill that would make presidents permanently immune from income tax. Income tax was established in the 1913 Sixteenth Amendment.

answer May 9, 2020 by Varuna Magar
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