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Summary

The Secretary must publish useful statistics at least once a year about how the tax laws are working. These reports show groups of taxpayers, kinds of income, and amounts claimed or allowed for deductions, exemptions, and credits, plus other relevant facts. If someone asks in writing, the Secretary may do special studies using tax return information, provide transcripts, and charge a reasonable fee. Nothing published or shared may identify any specific taxpayer. When asked, the Secretary must, as much as possible, give the National Taxpayer Advocate statistical studies, compilations, and checks of data and methods to help prepare the Advocate’s annual report.

Title 26, §6108

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(a)Publication or other disclosure of statistics of income

The Secretary shall prepare and publish not less than annually statistics reasonably available with respect to the operations of the internal revenue laws, including classifications of taxpayers and of income, the amounts claimed or allowed as deductions, exemptions, and credits, and any other facts deemed pertinent and valuable.

(b)Special statistical studies

The Secretary may, upon written request by any party or parties, make special statistical studies and compilations involving return information (as defined in section 6103(b)(2)) and furnish to such party or parties transcripts of any such special statistical study or compilation. A reasonable fee may be prescribed for the cost of the work or services performed for such party or parties.

(c)Anonymous form

No publication or other disclosure of statistics or other information required or authorized by subsection (a) or special statistical study authorized by subsection (b) shall in any manner permit the statistics, study, or any information so published, furnished, or otherwise disclosed to be associated with, or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a particular taxpayer.

(d)Statistical support for National Taxpayer Advocate

Upon request of the National Taxpayer Advocate, the Secretary shall, to the extent practicable, provide the National Taxpayer Advocate with statistical support in connection with the preparation by the National Taxpayer Advocate of the annual report described in section 7803(c)(2)(B)(ii). Such statistical support shall include statistical studies, compilations, and the review of information provided by the National Taxpayer Advocate for statistical validity and sound statistical methodology.

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Editorial Notes

Amendments

2019—Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 116–25 added subsec. (d). 1976—Pub. L. 94–455 designated existing provisions as subsec. (a), struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary”, inserted “not less than” after “prepare and publish” and “claimed or” after “income, the amounts”, substituted “internal revenue laws” for “income tax laws”, and added subsecs. (b) and (c).

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 2019 Amendment Pub. L. 116–25, title I, § 1301(d), July 1, 2019, 133 Stat. 993, provided that: “(1) In general.—Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the

Amendments

made by this section [amending this section and section 7803 of this title] shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act [

July 1, 2019]. “(2) Salary of national taxpayer advocate.—The amendment made by subsection (c) [amending section 7803 of this title] shall apply to compensation paid to individuals appointed as the National Taxpayer Advocate after

March 31, 2019.”

Effective Date

of 1976 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 94–455 effective Jan. 1, 1977, see section 1202(i) of Pub. L. 94–455, set out as a note under section 6103 of this title.

§6108 Statistical Publications and Studies

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