Which of the following best describes how the Articles of Confederation allowed for the collection of taxes?

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Congress did not have the power to collect taxes. They could ask each state for tax money, but could not make them obey the requests.

Congress collected taxes directly from each state's representative. The representative gathered the taxes from the citizens in the state.

Congress could collect taxes directly from each citizen. However, they could not ask the state governments to help them.

Congress could collect taxes directly from each state's government, but Congress could not make those governments spend the taxes.

Answer 1

The best description of how the Articles of Confederation allowed for the collection of taxes is:

Congress did not have the power to collect taxes. They could ask each state for tax money, but could not make them obey the requests.

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress lacked the authority to impose taxes directly and had to rely on voluntary contributions from the states, which often led to difficulties in raising sufficient funds for national purposes.