As a part of the revenue act Congress levied a tax on incomes as authorized by the sixteenth amendment to the Constitution.

作为收入法案的一部分，国会根据宪法第十六修正案的授权对收入征税。

Although the British government, finding the Townshend revenue act a failure, repealed in 1770 all the duties except that on tea, it in no way relaxed its resolve to enforce the other commercial regulations it had imposed on the colonies.

——尽管英国政府发现 Townshend 税收法案失败，于 1770 年废除了除茶叶税之外的所有关税，但它并没有放松执行它强加给殖民地的其他商业法规的决心。