What amendment states that the deadline to file your federal income tax return for the previous year is April 15?

Answer 1

That like most things, would be found in the US Laws, not an amendment to the Constitution. The laws of the land, which like any, are found within a general area of similar laws...here the Internal Revenue Code - which has many, many levels and parts...Statutes being another...and case law from the whole division of courts that cases involving these laws are heard at...Tax Court (like criminal court hears criminal cases and traffic court hears traffic ones), all of whihc are passed by vote by the elected members of Congress and signed inot law by the President. The "new" economic recovery package is part of that law...it changes how the Code reads...it could have changed when returns are due...and for some types of returns in fact it did! Obviously, no amendment, or even law says that federal income tax returns are due by 4/15...because...in many, many, many cases, they aren't! They are due 3.5 months after the end of the fiscal year for a individual taxpayer (and most, but not all have a calendar same as fiscal year end), other (non-individuals, like Corporations) are due 2.5 months after year end (so even those with a calendar equal to fiscal (most don't) would be due 3/15). Death and many other circumstances make the dates for filing different yet. Etc. The 16th amendment to the constituton deals with allowing income taxes, it reads: == The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several states, and without regard to any census or enumeration.