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Constitution & Rights
Amendment XVI

Federal Income Tax

The text
"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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The Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to levy a federal income tax without apportioning it among the states by population.

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