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Title 26 — Internal Revenue Code

Part II · Chapter 61 — Information and Returns

§ 6021. Listing by Secretary of taxable objects owned by nonresidents of internal revenue districts

Statutory text

Whenever there are in any internal revenue district any articles subject to tax, which are not owned or possessed by or under the care or control of any person within such district, and of which no list has been transmitted to the Secretary, as required by law or by regulations prescribed pursuant to law, the Secretary shall enter the premises where such articles are situated, shall make such inspection of the articles as may be necessary and make lists of the same, according to the forms prescribed. Such lists, being subscribed by the Secretary, shall be sufficient lists of such articles for all purposes.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 740 · 68A Stat. 740

    Enacted · 26 U.S.C. § 6021

    Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 740

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 740

  2. Pub. L. 94–455 title XIX § 1906(b)(13)(A) · 90 Stat. 1520

    Struck · 26 U.S.C. § 6021

    Pub. L. 94–455 struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary” wherever appearing

    Source evidence

    Code amendment note
    Pub. L. 94–455 struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary” wherever appearing.

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (A) The Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended by this Act, is amended by striking out “Secretary or his delegate” each place it appears and inserting in lieu thereof “Secretary”.

1 of 2 references resolved to an enrolled provision · 1 partial

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1976—Pub. L. 94–455 struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary” wherever appearing.

Credits

1954–1976 · 2 acts
  1. 1954Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 740
  2. 1976Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, § 1906(b)(13)(A), , 90 Stat. 1834.
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(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 740; Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, § 1906(b)(13)(A), , 90 Stat. 1834.)

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