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.

 


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