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The 16th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution gives the power to invoke and collect income taxes as well as other types of taxes. This Amendment was ratified in 1913. Abraham Lincoln issued the first tax on people's income during the Civil War but this tax was later found to be unconstitutional. This is why the !6th Amendment was required to legalize the taxes.

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