House Joint Resolution 81
Constitutional Amendment to abolish IRS

Sponsor: Rep Paul, Ron (introduced 11/16/1999)
Latest Major Action: 11/19/1999 Referred to House subcommittee

OFFICIAL TITLE AS INTRODUCED

Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of theUnited States relative to abolishing personal income, estate, and gift taxes and prohibiting the United States Government from engaging in business in competition with its citizens.  (Emphasis added not in original text)

STATUS:

11/16/1999: Referred to the House Committee on the Judiciary.

11/19/1999: Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution.

COSPONSOR(S):

***NONE***

SUMMARY AS OF:
11/16/1999--Introduced.

Constitutional Amendment - Prohibits the United States from engaging in any business, professional, commercial, financial, or industrial enterprise except as specified in the Constitution.

Prohibits the constitution or laws of any State, or the laws of theUnited States, from being subject to the terms of any foreign or domestic agreement which would abrogate this amendment.

Requires any activities of the U.S. Government which violate the intent and purposes of this amendment to, within a period of three years from the date of the ratification of this amendment, be liquidated and the properties and facilities affected to be sold.

Repeals, three years after the ratification of this amendment the sixteenth article of amendments to the Constitution of theUnited States and thereafter Congress shall not levy taxes on personal incomes, estates, and or gifts.