Read this excerpt from the Articles of Confederation, focusing on the underlined text.Under the articles, who is responsible for collecting taxes in the US?

Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress could request money from the states, but it could not collect taxes directly from people. Each state legislature was responsible for raising the money through taxes and sending its share to the common treasury. Therefore, the individual state legislatures were responsible for collecting taxes.

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