Excerpt from The Income Tax Law of the United States of America: Analyzed and Clarified Though the text of the statute is generally ambiguous in its sentences, and often heterogeneous in the sequences of its provisions; it is also true that those provisions, when clearly restated and logically rearranged, con stitute a nearly complete system of enacted law. That law, being founded upon the recently ratified sixteenth amendment to the Constitution of the United States, and having been lately enacted by the Congress of the United. States and signed by the President, is entitled to the willing obedience of every citizen of any of those States, and of every alien who resides or conducts business in our country. But no law can be reliably obeyed without being reliably known. And it is the intended function of' this pamphlet to inform every attentive reader of its. Pages, precisely how the law applies to him, or to any other person, or to any organization anywhere