Title 26 — Internal Revenue Code
Part I · Chapter 68 — Additions to the Tax, Additional Amounts, and Assessable Penalties
§ 6690. Fraudulent statement or failure to furnish statement to plan participant
Statutory text
Any person required under section 6057(e) to furnish a statement to a participant who willfully furnishes a false or fraudulent statement, or who willfully fails to furnish a statement in the manner, at the time, and showing the information required under section 6057(e), or regulations prescribed thereunder, shall for each such act, or for each such failure, be subject to a penalty under this subchapter of $50, which shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as the tax on employers imposed by section 3111.
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.
Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
Pub. L. 93–406 title II § 1031(b)(2)(A) · 88 Stat. 829
Enacted · 26 U.S.C. § 6690
(Added Pub. L. 93–406, title II, § 1031(b)(2)(A), Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 946.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Added Pub. L. 93–406, title II, § 1031(b)(2)(A), Sept. 2, 1974, 88 Stat. 946.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
(A) Subchapter B of chapter 68 (relating to assessable penalties) is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “SEC. 6690. FRAUDULENT STATEMENT OR FAILURE TO FURNISH STATEMENT TO PLAN PARTICIPANT. “Any person required under section 6057(e) to furnish a statement to a participant who willfully furnishes a false or fraudulent statement, or who willfully fails to furnish a statement in the manner, at the time, and showing the information required under section 6057(e), or regulations prescribed thereunder, shall for each such act, or for each such failure, be subject to a penalty under this subchapter of $50, which shall be assessed and collected in the same manner as the tax on employers imposed by section 3111.” 26 USC 3111.
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Effective Date
Section effective , see section 1034 of Pub. L. 93–406, set out as a note under section 6057 of this title.
Credits
(Added Pub. L. 93–406, title II, § 1031(b)(2)(A), , 88 Stat. 946.)