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Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act
United States [1894]
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voided by Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
- In Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
…court voided portions of the Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act of 1894 that imposed a direct tax on the incomes of American citizens and corporations, thus declaring the federal income tax unconstitutional. The decision was mooted (unsettled) in 1913 by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment to the federal Constitution, giving Congress the…
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