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~. • <br /> <br />C. <br />could lawfully grant under Article XI, Section 5, of the Texas Constitution. While Texas <br />courts have held that such boiler-plate language in a city charter is ineffective to <br />grant powers not otherwise expressly granted by the charter, those provisions when read <br />together with the broad grant of paver to tax in Article VIII, Section 2, appear to <br />strengthen the argument that the current Austin city charter authorizes the city council <br />by ordinance to admit a personal income tax." (Eknphasis added). <br />While I have not studied the city charters of other cities in Texas, I feel that since <br />the possibility exists that the City of Austin could, someday, impose an income tax on <br />its residents, legislative action is in order to prevent that from occurring. <br />Therefore, I am drafting legislation to prohibit municipal income taxes in the State of <br />Texas. <br />My feeling is that if a city council in Texas thinks it can impose a personal or corpo- <br />rate income tax, it 'might.' I want to insure that 'might' does not change to 'will.' <br />