 Income Tax 2021-2022. Government Authority to Tax. Get ready to get refunds to the max. Dive into Income Tax 2021-2022. If you work in the field of taxation you will almost certainly be asked by a client at some point in time or you might ask yourself where does the government get the authority to tax. A natural question in the United States a place where we're historically quite skeptical of taxation tried to avoid the taxes for as long as possible and you might hear arguments saying that the tax itself is against basically natural law theory so you might want to have handy in that event basically it's going to be the 16th amendment to the Constitution that's just a response if you need to respond to that if you're in like the tax field because obviously the tax has been well established at this point in time that ship has already sailed at this point in time the argument is really over the extent of taxation and basically how the