The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 16 (Sixteenth Amendment – Income Tax)
The Constitution of the United States: Amendment 16 (16th Amendment)
Amendment XVI. (Income Tax)
Passed by Congress July 2, 1909. Ratified February 3, 1913.
Note: Article I, section 9, of the Constitution was modified by amendment 16.
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.
More
- The Constitution of the United States: Amendments 11-27, from The National Archives
- Sixteenth Amendment – CRS Annotated Constitution
- Sixteenth Amendment – Wikipedia
- Sixteenth Amendment – Findlaw
- The Constitution of the United States: A Transcription – The National Archives
- United States Constitution: Texts, Commentaries, Historical Texts and Judicial Decisions – Law Library of Congress
- The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation – FDsys
- “Federalism and the Constitution: Limits on Congressional Power,” CRS Report RL30315
- “Ratification of Amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” CRS Report 97-922
- Federal Debt
- Public Debt
- “Estate Tax Legislation in the 109th Congress,” CRS Report RL32818
- “Individual Capital Gains Income: Legislative History,” CRS Report 98-473
- “A History of Federal Estate, Gift, and Generation-Skipping Taxes,” CRS Report 95-444
- “Tax Havens: International Tax Avoidance and Evasion,” CRS Report R40623
- “Tax Return Confidentiality,” CRS Report IB75039
- “Tax Reform Effects,” CRS Report IB87010
- The Federal Budget Process
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The Beatles – Taxman

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