Special Interests and the Adoption of the Income Tax in the United States

Bennett D. Baack and Edward John Ray

The Journal of Economic History, 1985, vol. 45, issue 3, 607-625

Abstract: Perhaps no single element involved with the rapid assumption of economic power by the federal government was more important than the passage of the income tax, the means by which the increasing role of government was financed. We explain the political and economic interests that came together to successfully pass the income tax, and we provide extensive empirical evidence regarding the determinants of the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Date: 1985
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