CHAPTER 80-GENERAL RULES SUBCHAPTER A. Application of internal revenue laws. Subchapter A-Application of Internal Revenue Laws Sec. 7801. Authority of Department of the Treasury. Sec. 7803. Other personnel. Sec. 7804. Effect of reorganization plans. Sec. 7805. Rules and regulations. Sec. 7806. Construction of title. Sec. 7807. Rules in effect upon enactment of this title. Sec. 7809. Deposit of collections. SEC. 7801. AUTHORITY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY. (a) POWERS AND DUTIES OF SECRETARY.-Except as otherwise expressly provided by law, the administration and enforcement of this title shall be performed by or under the supervision of the Secretary of the Treasury. (b) OFFICE OF GENERAL COUNSEL FOR THE DEPARTMENT.— (1) GENERAL COUNSEL.-There shall be in the Department of the Treasury the office of General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury. The General Counsel shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The General Counsel shall be the chief law officer of the Department and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Secretary. (2) ASSISTANT GENERAL COUNSELS.-The President is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, an Assistant General Counsel who shall be the Chief Counsel for the Internal Revenue Service and shall receive basic compensation at the annual rate of $19,000. The Chief Counsel shall be the chief law officer for the Internal Revenue Service and shall perform such duties as may be prescribed by the Secretary. The Secretary may appoint, without regard to the provisions of the civil service laws, and fix the duties of not to exceed five other assistant General Counsels. (3) ATTORNEYS.-The Secretary may appoint and fix the duties of such other attorneys as he may deem necessary. (c) FUNCTIONS OF DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE UNAFFECTED.-Nothing in this section shall be considered to affect the duties, powers, or functions imposed upon, or vested in, the Department of Justice, or any officer thereof, by law existing on May 10, 1934. SEC. 7802. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE. There shall be in the Department of the Treasury a Commissioner of Internal Revenue, who shall be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall have such duties and powers as may be prescribed by the Secretary. SEC. 7803. OTHER PERSONNEL. (a) APPOINTMENT AND SUPERVISION.-The Secretary or his delegate is authorized to employ such number of persons as the Secretary or his delegate deems proper for the administration and enforcement of the internal revenue laws, and the Secretary or his delegate shall issue all necessary directions, instructions, orders, and rules applicable to such persons. (b) POSTS OF DUTY OF EMPLOYEES IN FIELD SERVICE OR TRAVEL ING.- (1) DESIGNATION OF POST OF DUTY.-The Secretary or his delegate shall determine and designate the posts of duty of all such persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia. (2) DETAIL OF PERSONNEL FROM FIELD SERVICE.-The Secretary or his delegate may order any such person engaged in field work to duty in the District of Columbia, for such periods as the Secretary or his delegate may prescribe, and to any designated post of duty outside the District of Columbia upon the completion of such duty. (c) BONDS OF EMPLOYEES.-Whenever the Secretary or his delegate deems it proper, he may require any such officer or employee to furnish such bond, or he may purchase such blanket or schedule bonds, as the Secretary or his delegate deems appropriate. The premium of any such bond or bonds may, in the discretion of the Secretary or his delegate, be paid from the appropriation for expenses of the Internal Revenue Service. (d) DELINQUENT INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES.If any officer or employee of the Treasury Department acting in connection with the internal revenue laws fails to account for and pay over any amount of money or property collected or received by him in connection with the internal revenue laws, the Secretary or his delegate shall issue notice and demand to such officer or employee for payment of the amount which he failed to account for and pay over, and, upon failure to pay the amount demanded within the time specified in such notice, the amount so demanded shall be deemed imposed upon such officer or employee and assessed upon the date of such notice and demand, and the provisions of chapter 64 and all other provisions of law relating to the collection of assessed taxes shall be applicable in respect of such amount. SEC. 7804. EFFECT OF REORGANIZATION PLANS. (a) APPLICATION.-The provisions of Reorganization Plan Numbered 26 of 1950 and Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1952 shall be applicable to all functions vested by this title, or by any act amending this title (except as otherwise expressly provided in such amending act), in any officer, employee, or agency, of the Department of the Treasury. (b) PRESERVATION OF EXISTING RIGHTS AND REMEDIES.-Nothing in Reorganization Plan Numbered 26 of 1950 or Reorganization Plan Numbered 1 of 1952 shall be considered to impair any right or remedy, including trial by jury, to recover any internal revenue tax alleged to have been erroneously or illegally assessed or collected, or any penalty claimed to have been collected without authority, or any sum alleged to have been excessive or in any manner wrongfully collected under the internal revenue laws. For the purpose of any action to recover any such tax, penalty, or sum, all statutes, rules, and regulations referring to the collector of internal revenue, the principal officer for the internal revenue district, or the Secretary or his delegate, shall be deemed to refer to the officer whose act or acts referred to in the preceding sentence gave rise to such action. The venue of any such action shall be the same as under existing law. SEC. 7805. RULES AND REGULATIONS. (a) AUTHORIZATION.-Except where such authority is expressly given by this title to any person other than an officer or employee of the Treasury Department, the Secretary or his delegate shall prescribe all needful rules and regulations for the enforcement of this title, including all rules and regulations as may be necessary by reason of any alteration of law in relation to internal revenue. (b) RETROACTIVITY OF REGULATIONS OR RULINGS.-The Secretary or his delegate may prescribe the extent, if any, to which any ruling or regulation, relating to the internal revenue laws, shall be applied without retroactive effect. (c) PREPARATION AND DISTRIBUTION OF REGULATIONS, FORMS, STAMPS, AND OTHER MATTERS.-The Secretary or his delegate shall prepare and distribute all the instructions, regulations, directions, forms, blanks, stamps, and other matters pertaining to the assessment and collection of internal revenue. SEC. 7806. CONSTRUCTION OF TITLE. (a) CROSS REFERENCES.-The cross references in this title to other portions of the title, or other provisions of law, where the word "see" is used, are made only for convenience, and shall be given no legal effect. (b) ARRANGEMENT AND CLASSIFICATION.-No inference, implication, or presumption of legislative construction shall be drawn or made by reason of the location or grouping of any particular section or provision or portion of this title, nor shall any table of contents, table of cross references, or similar outline, analysis, or descriptive matter relating to the contents of this title be given any legal effect. The preceding sentence also applies to the sidenotes and ancillary tables. contained in the various prints of this Act before its enactment into law. SEC. 7807. RULES IN EFFECT UPON ENACTMENT OF THIS TITLE. (a) INTERIM PROVISION FOR ADMINISTRATION OF TITLE.-Until regulations are promulgated under any provision of this title which depends for its application upon the promulgation of regulations (or which is to be applied in such manner as may be prescribed by regulations) all instructions, rules or regulations which are in effect immediately prior to the enactment of this title shall, to the extent such instructions, rules, or regulations could be prescribed as regulations under authority of such provision, be applied as if promulgated as regulations under such provision. (b) PROVISIONS OF THIS TITLE CORRESPONDING TO PRIOR INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS. (1) REFERENCE TO LAW APPLICABLE TO PRIOR PERIOD.—Any provision of this title which refers to the application of any portion of this title to a prior period (or which depends upon the application to a prior period of any portion of this title) shall, when appropriate and consistent with the purpose of such provision, be deemed to refer to (or depend upon the application of) the corresponding provision of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 or of such other internal revenue laws as were applicable to the prior period. (2) ELECTIONS OR OTHER ACTS.-If an election or other act under the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 would, if this title had not been enacted, be given effect for a period subsequent to the date of enactment of this title, and if corresponding provisions are contained in this title, such election or other act shall be given effect under the corresponding provisions of this title. SEC. 7808. DEPOSITARIES FOR COLLECTIONS. The Secretary or his delegate is authorized to designate one or more depositaries in each State for the deposit and safe-keeping of the money collected by virtue of the internal revenue laws; and the receipt of the proper officer of such depositary to the proper officer or employee of the Treasury Department for the money deposited by him shall be a sufficient voucher for such Treasury officer or employee in the settlement of his accounts. SEC. 7809. DEPOSIT OF COLLECTIONS. (a) GENERAL RULE.-Except as provided in subsection (b), sections 4735, 4762, 7651, 7652, and 7654, the gross amount of all taxes and revenues received under the provisions of this title, and collections of whatever nature received or collected by authority of any internal revenue law, shall be paid daily into the Treasury of the United States under instructions of the Secretary or his delegate as internal revenue collections, by the officer or employee receiving or collecting the same, without any abatement or deduction on account of salary, compensation, fees, costs, charges, expenses, or claims of any description. A certificate of such payment, stating the name of the depositor and the specific account on which the deposit was made, signed by the Treasurer of the United States, designated depositary, or proper officer of a deposit bank, shall be transmitted to the Secretary or his delegate. (b) DEPOSIT FUNDS.-In accordance with instructions of the Secretary or his delegate, there shall be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States in a deposit fund account (1) SUMS OFFERED IN COMPROMISE.-Sums offered in compromise under the provisions of section 7122; (2) SUMS OFFERED FOR PURCHASE OF REAL ESTATE.-Sums offered for the purchase of real estate under the provisions of section 7506; and (3) SURPLUS PROCEEDS IN SALES UNDER LEVY.-Surplus proceeds in any sale under levy, after making allowance for the amount of the tax, interest, penalties, and additions thereto, and for costs and charges of the levy and sale. Upon the acceptance of such offer in compromise or offer for the purchase of such real estate, the amount so accepted shall be withdrawn from such deposit fund account and deposited in the Treasury of the United States as internal revenue collections. Upon the rejection of any such offer, the Secretary or his delegate shall refund to the maker of such offer the amount thereof. Subchapter B-Effective Date and Related Provisions Sec. 7851. Applicability of revenue laws. Sec. 7852. Other applicable rules. SEC. 7851. APPLICABILITY OF REVENUE LAWS. (a) GENERAL RULES.-Except as otherwise provided in any section of this title (1) SUBTITLE A. (A) Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 6 of this title shall apply only with respect to taxable years beginning after December 31, 1953, and ending after the date of enactment of this title, and with respect to such taxable years, chapters 1 (except sections 143 and 144) and 2, and section 3801, of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 are hereby repealed. (B) Chapters 3 and 5 of this title shall apply with respect to payments and transfers occurring after December 31, 1954, and as to such payments and transfers sections 143 and 144 and chapter 7 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 are hereby repealed. (C) Any provision of subtitle A of this title the applicability of which is stated in terms of a specific date (occurring after December 31, 1953), or in terms of taxable years ending after a specific date (occurring after December 31, 1953), shall apply to taxable years ending after such specific date. Each such provision shall, in the case of a taxable year subject to the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, be deemed to be included in the Internal Revenue Code of 1939, but shall be applicable only to taxable years ending after such specific date. The provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 superseded by provisions of subtitle A of this title the applicability of which is stated in terms of a specific date (occurring after December 31, 1953) shall be deemed to be included in subtitle A of this title, but shall be applicable only to the period prior to the taking effect of the corresponding provision of subtitle A. (D) Effective with respect to taxable years ending after March 31, 1954, and subject to tax under chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1939 (i) Sections 13 (b) (3), 26 (b) (2) (C), 26 (h) (1) (C) (including the comma and the word "and" immediately preceding such section), 26 (i) (3), 108 (k), 207 (a) (1) (C), 207 (a) (3) (C), and the last sentence of section 362 (b) (3) of such Code are hereby repealed; and (ii) Sections 13 (b) (2), 26 (b) (2) (B), 26 (h) (1) (B), 26 (i) (2), 207 (a) (1) (B), 207 (a) (3) (B), 421 (a) (1) (B), and the second sentence of section 362 (b) (3) of such Code are hereby amended by striking out "and before April 1, 1954" (and any accompanying punctuation) wherever appearing therein. |