Sixteenth Amendment

American  

noun

1. an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1913, authorizing Congress to levy a tax on incomes.

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Sixteenth Amendment

The Sixteenth Amendment gives the federal government the power to enact a progressive income tax; the Seventeenth requires that the people, not legislators, choose United States senators.

From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2018

No less important, the Sixteenth Amendment, adopted in 1913, established a national income tax; until then, as much as thirty per cent of federal revenue had come from excise taxes on alcohol.

From The New Yorker ● Dec. 21, 2015

To offset the potential loss of federal revenue, this new law reinstituted the federal income tax, which followed the ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014

Congress passed the Sixteenth Amendment in 1913, so the government could tax people’s income, or wages.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2012

A convincing demonstration of the extent to which the Pollock decision had been whittled down by the time the Sixteenth Amendment was adopted is found in Billings v.

From The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 30, 1952 by Corwin, Edward Samuel