which amendment established federal income tax?

Answer 1

It was the 16th amendment which proved to be so confusing as to be quite unclear even today. It is really a license to steal and rob the American people of property not really due them.......

Answer 2

If you are speaking of federal income tax on individuals, then there was no amendment. This tax on individuals grew out of the Victory Tax of WWII, which was apportioned according to the law. This was a temporary tax, which was terminated when the war was over. Some, caught up in the victory, patriotism and the rebuilding of America after the war, continued to VOLUNTEER to pay the Victory Tax. There was no obligation to do so. They did so under their own volition.

The Constitution prohibits an income tax against compensation earned by a Sovereign Citizen. Only the dead entities, i.e. artificial entities shall be taxed....companies. Any taxes paid into the system, as an individual, MUST be done so on a VOLUNTARY basis.

If you look real close at the wording on a 1040, it says "IF you are required to file, then go to form XXX. The "if" takes the legal requirement off the table. Clearly IF you are required to file, presupposes that some ARE NOT required to file. In actuality, NONE are REQUIRED to file, but because most don't know the law, most only THINK they are required to file, and the IRS greedy S.O.B.'s certainly aren't gonna deter your ignorance, so you end of paying a tax not due. Hope this helps. Take the advice of the first guy, and read your Constitution.

Answer 3

The system of taxation was established to pay for the Civil War.

"The first federal income tax was imposed by Congress in 1862, to finance the Union's waging of the Civil War. It levied a 3% tax on incomes above $600, rising to 5% for incomes above $10,000. Rates were raised in 1864. The Civil War income tax was repealed in 1872, but a new income tax was enacted as part of the 1894 Tariff Act (see Tariff Act, Ch. 349, 28 Stat. 509 (Aug. 15, 1894)). However, the Supreme Court struck down the income tax in 1895. It ruled that the portion of the income tax that applied to income on property was a direct tax that, under the US Constitution, could not be levied without apportioning the tax by population."

It was not codified for another 60 years, until the 16th Amendment.

"In 1913, however, the states ratified the Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which made possible modern income taxes. That same year, the first Form 1040 appeared after Congress levied a 1% tax on net personal incomes above $3,000 with a 6% surtax on incomes of more than $500,000. By 1918, the top rate of the income tax was increased to 77% (on income over $1,000,000) to finance World War I. In 1922 the top marginal tax rate was reduced to 58% and then to 25% in 1925 and eventually to 24% in 1929. In 1932 the top marginal tax rate was increased to 63% during the Great Depression and steadily increased to 94% marginal tax rates on all income over $200,000 in 1945. Top marginal tax rates stayed near or above 90% until 1964 when the top marginal tax rate was lowered to 70%. The top marginal tax rate was lowered to 50% in 1982 and eventually to 28% in 1988. During World War II, Congress introduced payroll withholding and quarterly tax payments."

Answer 4

The sixteenth modification. previous tries at a *own* earnings tax have been struck down in 1895 in a case referred to as: Pollock :vs: Farmers own loan & have confidence. earnings taxes placed on company entities have been judged as constitutionally ideal (1909) after the Pollock decision and previous to the offering of the sixteenth modification. (1913) the 1st significant ideally suited court docket try of the sixteenth modification, wherein the constitutional authority grew to become into affirmed, grew to become into Brushaber :vs: Union Pacific Railroad Co. (1916). The history surrounding the creation and ratification of the sixteenth modification promises you significant history into the "motives of the area" that have been sensible in getting the needful variety of state legislatures to ratify it. Mexican female with a blonde's recommendations......that's wealthy. :)

Answer 5

Read the Constitution. It's worth the time.

Answer 6

16th amendment