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the 16th amendment allows congress to authorize an income tax.
A means for congress to levy personal income.
The amendment that gave Congress authority to enact an income tax was ratified on February 3, 1913. This amendment, known as the 16th Amendment, allows Congress to levy and collect taxes on income without apportionment among the states.
the 16th amendent
The sixteenth amendment allows Congress to impose income taxes in their current form.
The Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax against individuals.
The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results. This amendment overruled Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. (1895), which limited the Congress's authority to levy an income tax.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
The Sixteenth Amendment. "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."
Allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the U.S. Census.
The 16th amendment to the United States constitution allows congress to levy a tax on income. It was ratified when 3/4 of the total number of states (36, as there were, at the time, 48 states) approved the amendment as of February, 1913.
The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1913, introduced the modern income tax on personal earnings. This amendment granted Congress the power to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states based on population.
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.