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What amendment did congress gain the right to tax peoples income?
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∙ 14y ago
The Sixteenth Amendment
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∙ 14y ago16th passed in 1913
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What amendment gave the congress the right to levy and income tax?
16th amendment
Which amendment empowered Congress to levy an income tax?
The 16th amendment was passed in 1913 to establish Congress right to impose a federal income tax.
Amendment 16 give congress the right to?
collect income tax.
Amendment 16 gave congress the right to?
collect income tax
What amendment gave congress the right to impose tax?
The 16th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution cleared the way for Income Taxes.
Which amendment established the federal income?
The 16th Amendment made it legal for the Congress to lay and collect taxes on income. It is the contention of some that because the Congress does NOT do the collecting directly, that is done by the IRS a division of the Executive Branch, every dime of income tax ever collected by the IRS has been collected unconstitutionally. In the US Government, the Executive Branch is responsible for enforcing the laws passed by the Congress.
The Sixteenth Seventeenth Eighteenth Amendment addressed the moral issue of alcohol?
The 16th Amendment gave Congress the right to collect income taxes. The 17th Amendment established that the Senate would be comprised of two senators from each state. The 18th Amendment established the prohibition of alcohol.
What amendment gave Congress the right to tax personal income?
Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;Amendment XVI The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.
What provision gave congress the right to tax?
sixteenth amendment
Which type of federal what are the right by the 16th amendment in 1913?
Income
What law says you have to pay income tax?
The Revenue Act of 1913.And thhe income tax code IS law, Chapter 24 of the US Laws, as made, voted on by Congress and signed by the President.The 16th amendment of the Constitution also addresses the right to make the laws doing so, although it in itself is not a law saying one has to pay.
Who has the power to collect an income tax?
Congress of the United States, By virtue of the 16th Amendment to the U.S Constitution has the right to lay and levy (impose) a tax on income earned by whatever source deemed by the IRC. (Internal Revenue Tax Codes)
