Historical clue formulations

• Return payments? — 2026-05-29
• Takes a toll on — 2024-04-17
• Wears on — 2024-03-24
• Early springtime woe — 2022-12-18
• What the I.R.S. collects — 2019-12-16
• Annual spring chore, for many — 2018-12-01
• One of Benjamin Franklin's certainties — 2016-12-19
• Proverbial certainty — 2016-09-16
• Burdens — 2015-03-07
• "What we pay for civilized society," per Oliver Wendell Holmes — 2015-01-09
• Campaign issue — 2014-04-25
• See 25-Down — 2012-07-10
• One of Franklin's certainties — 2012-04-27
• Proverbial certainty — 2010-08-07
• Pay stub data — 2008-02-08
• Subject of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution — 2007-11-04
• Duties — 2007-03-31
• They may be graduated — 2005-12-27
• One of two "certainties" in life — 2004-04-21
• See 18-Down — 2003-10-12
• Colonists' annoyances — 2003-03-05
• Burdens — 1999-05-30
• Death's partner? — 1998-09-02
• One of life's certainties, in a saying — 1994-05-16