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Title 26 — Internal Revenue Code

Chapter 75 — Crimes, Other Offenses, and Forfeitures

§ 7344. Extended application of penalties relating to officers of the Treasury Department

Statutory text

All provisions of law imposing fines, penalties, or other punishment for offenses committed by an internal revenue officer or other officer of the Department of the Treasury, or under any agency or office thereof, shall apply to all persons whomsoever, employed, appointed, or acting under the authority of any internal revenue law, or any revenue provision of any law of the United States, when such persons are designated or acting as officers or employees in connection with such law, or are persons having the custody or disposition of any public money.

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. 872.) · 68A Stat. 872

    Enacted · 26 U.S.C. § 7344

    (Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 872.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 872.)

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Credits

(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 872.)

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