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Title 26 — Internal Revenue Code

Chapter 99 — Coal Industry Health Benefits

§ 9722. Sham transactions

Statutory text

If a principal purpose of any transaction is to evade or avoid liability under this chapter, this chapter shall be applied (and such liability shall be imposed) without regard to such transaction.

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. Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act of 1992

    Pub. L. 102–486 title XIX § 19143(a) · 106 Stat. 2776

    Enacted · 26 U.S.C. § 9722

    (Added Pub. L. 102–486, title XIX, § 19143(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3056.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Added Pub. L. 102–486, title XIX, § 19143(a), Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 3056.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    (A) Section 401(c) of such Act (30 U.S.C. 1231(c)) is amended by striking “and” at the end of paragraph (11), by redesignating paragraph (12) as paragraph (13), and by adding after paragraph (11) the following new paragraph: “(12) for the purpose described in section 402(h); and”.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Credits

(Added Pub. L. 102–486, title XIX, § 19143(a), , 106 Stat. 3056.)

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