If a person receives a pay check for six hundred dollars and the government takes two hundred in income taxes it is a result of which amendment?

The income tax deduction from a paycheck is primarily a result of the 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified in 1913. This amendment allows the federal government to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states or basing it on the U.S. Census. As a result, the government has the authority to collect taxes directly from individuals' earnings.