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Title 26 — Internal Revenue Code

Part I · Chapter 1 — Normal Taxes and Surtaxes

§ 701. Partners, not partnership, subject to tax

Statutory text

A partnership as such shall not be subject to the income tax imposed by this chapter. Persons carrying on business as partners shall be liable for income tax only in their separate or individual capacities.

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. 239.) · 68A Stat. 239

    Enacted · 26 U.S.C. § 701

    (Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 239.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 239.)

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Credits

(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 239.)

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