Excerpt from The Federal Income Tax The taxation of income is a relatively new phenomenon in American fiscal life. Only within a decade has the Federal Constitution been amended SO as to make a national income tax possible; and this amendment came in the nick of time. It is appalling to think of the situation into which we should have been plunged had we not been in a position to aliment our revenues during the Great War from this source. The very newness, combined with the hugeness, of this fresh device has, however, naturally engendered all sorts of difficulties from which we are slowly trying to extricate ourselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.