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The Sixteenth Amendment (Amendment XVI) to the United States Constitution allows the Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on Census results.
Therefore, the Sixteenth Amendment cannot be the source of the federal governmentâs power to impose the indirect excise taxes known as âincome taxes.â This renders the Amendment meaningless when it comes to the federal governmentâs power to impose these taxes.