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its findings with respect to reduced rates of contributions to a type of fund or account, as defined in subsection (c) of this section, which are allowable under such State law only in accordance with the provisions of subsection (a) of this section. After making such findings, the Board shall not withhold its. certification to the Secretary of the Treasury of such State law, or of the provisions thereof with respect to which such findings were made, for any taxable year pursuant to paragraph (1) or (2) of this subsection unless, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency, the Board finds the State law no longer contains the provisions specified in subsection (a) of this section or the State has, with respect to such taxable year, failed to comply substantially with any such provision. (c) DEFINITIONS. As used in this section

(1) RESERVE ACCOUNT.-The term "reserve account" means a separate account in an unemployment fund, maintained with respect to a person (or group of persons) having individuals in his (or their) employ, from which account, unless such account is exhausted, is paid all and only compensation payable on the basis of services performed for such person (or for one or more of the persons comprising the group).

(2) POOLED FUND.-The term "pooled fund" means an unemployment fund or any part thereof (other than a reserve account or a guaranteed employment account) into which the total contributions of persons contributing thereto are payable, in which all contributions are mingled and undivided, and from which compensation is payable to all individuals eligible for compensation from such fund.

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(3) PARTIALLY POOLED ACCOUNT.-The term "partially pooled account" means a part of an unemployment fund in which part of the fund all contributions thereto are mingled and undivided, and from which part of the fund compensation is payable only to individuals to whom compensation would be payable from a reserve account or from a guaranteed employment account but for the exhaustion or termination of such reserve account or of such guaranteed employment account. Payments from a reserve account or guaranteed employment account into a partially pooled account shall not be construed to be inconsistent with the provisions of paragraph (1) or (4) of this subsection.

(4) GUARANTEED EMPLOYMENT ACCOUNT.-The term "guaranteed employment account" means a separate account, in an unemployment fund, maintained with respect to a person (or group of persons) having individuals in his (or their) employ who, in accordance with the provisions of the State law or of a plan thereunder approved by the State agency,

(A) guarantees in advance at least thirty hours of work for which remuneration will be paid at not less than stated rates, for each of 40 weeks (or if more, one weekly hour may be deducted for each added week guaranteed) in a year, to all the individuals who are in his (or their) employ in, and who continue to be available for suitable work in, one

or more distinct establishments, except that any such individual's guaranty may commence after a probationary period (included within the 11 or less consecutive weeks immediately following the first week in which the individual renders services), and

(B) gives security or assurance, satisfactory to the State agency, for the fulfillment of such guaranties, from which account, unless such account is exhausted or terminated, is paid all and only compensation, payable on the basis of services performed for such person (or for one or more of the persons comprising the group), to any such individual whose guaranteed remuneration has not been paid (either pursuant to the guaranty or from the security or assurance provided for the fulfillment of the guaranty), or whose guaranty is not renewed and who is otherwise eligible for compensation under the State law.

(5) YEAR. The term "year" means any 12 consecutive calendar months.

(6) BALANCE.-The term "balance", with respect to a reserve account or a guaranteed employment account, means the amount standing to the credit of the account as of the computation date; except that, if subsequent to January 1, 1940, any moneys have been paid into or credited to such account other than payments thereto by persons having individuals in their employ, such term shall mean the amount in such account as of the computation date less the total of such other moneys paid into or credited to such account subsequent to January 1, 1940.

(7) COMPUTATION DATE.-The term "computation date" means the date, occurring at least once in each calendar year and within 27 weeks prior to the effective date of new rates of contributions, as of which such rates are computed.

(8) REDUCED RATE. The term "reduced rate" means a rate of contributions lower than the standard rate applicable under the State law, and the term "standard rate" means the rate on the basis of which variations therefrom are computed.

(d) VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.-A State law may, without being deemed to violate the standards set forth in subsection (a), permit voluntary contributions to be used in the computation of reduced rates if such contributions are paid prior to the expiration of 120 days after the beginning of the year for which such rates are elective

SEC. 1603. APPROVAL OF STATE LAWS.

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(a) REQUIREMENTS.-The Social Security Board 1 shall approve any State law submitted to it, within 30 days of such submission, which it finds provides that

(1) All compensation is to be paid through public employment offices or such other agencies as the Board may approve;

(2) No compensation shall be payable with respect to any day of unemployment occuring within two years after the first day of the first period with respect to which contributions are required;

1 The powers of the Social Security Board were transferred to the Federal Security Administrator by Sec. 4 of Reorganization Plan No. 2, effective July 16, 1946.

(3) All money received in the unemployment fund shall (except for refunds of sums erroneously paid into such fund and except for refunds paid in accordance with the provisions of section 1606 (b)) immediately upon such receipt be paid over to the Secretary of the Treasury to the credit of the unemployment trust fund established by section 904 of the Social Security Act, 49 Stat. 640 (U. S. C., Title 42, § 1104);

(4) All money withdrawn from the unemployment fund of the State shall be used solely in the payment of unemployment compensation, exclusive of expenses of administration, and for refunds of sums erroneously paid into such fund and refunds paid in accordance with the provisions of section 1606 (b): Provided, That an amount equal to the amount of employee payments into the unemployment fund of a State may be used in the payment of cash benefits to individuals with respect to their disability, exclusive of expenses of administration;

(5) Compensation shall not be denied in such State to any otherwise eligible individual for refusing to accept new work under any of the following conditions: (A) If the position offered is vacant due directly to a strike, lockout, or other labor dispute; (B) if the wages, hours, or other conditions of the work offered are substantially less favorable to the individual than those prevailing for similar work in the locality; (C) if as a condition of being employed the individual would be required to join a company union or to resign from or refrain from joining any bona fide labor organization;

(6) All the rights, privileges, or immunities conferred by such law or by acts done pursuant thereto shall exist subject to the power of the legislature to amend or repeal such law at any time. (b) NOTIFICATION.-The Board shall, upon approving such law, notify the governor of the State of its approval.

(c) CERTIFICATION.-On December 31 of each taxable year the Board shall certify to the Secretary each State whose law it has previously approved, except that it shall not certify any State which, after reasonable notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency, the Board finds has changed its law so that it no longer contains the provisions specified in subsection (a) or has with respect to such taxable year failed to comply substantially with any such pro

vision.

(d) NOTICE OF NON-CERTIFICATION.-If, at any time during the taxable year, the Board has reason to believe that a State whose law it has previously approved may not be certified under subsection (c), it shall promptly so notify the governor of such State.

SEC. 1604. RETURNS.

(a) REQUIREMENT.-Not later than January 31, next following the close of the taxable year, each employer shall make a return of the tax under this subchapter for such taxable year. Each such return shall be made under oath, shall be filed with the collector for the district in which is located the principal place of business of the employer, or, if he has no principal place of business in the United States, then with the collector at Baltimore, Maryland, and shall contain such

information and be made in such manner as the Commissioner, with the approval of the Secretary, may by regulations prescribe.

(b) EXTENSION OF TIME FOR FILING.-The Commissioner may extend the time for filing the return of the tax imposed by this subchapter, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe with the approval of the Secretary, but no such extension shall be for more than 90 days.

(c) PUBLICITY.-Returns filed under this subchapter shall be open to inspection in the same manner, to the same extent, and subject to the same provisions of law, including penalties, as returns made under chapter 1,1 except that paragraph (2) of subsections (a), (b), and (f) of section 55 shall not apply.

[Section 55 (a) (2) and (3), (b) (2), (d), and (f) (2) reads as follows:

"SEC. 55. PUBLICITY OF RETURNS.

"(a) PUBLIC RECORD AND INSPECTION.

"(2) And all returns made under this chapter, subchapters A, B, D, and E of chapter 2, subchapter B of chapter 3, chapters 4, 7, 12, and 21, subchapter A of chapter 29, and chapter 30, shall constitute public records and shall be open to public examination and inspection to such extent as shall be authorized in rules and regulations promulgated by the President.

"(3) Whenever a return is open to the inspection of any person a certified copy thereof shall, upon request, be furnished to such persons under rules and regulations prescribed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary. The Commissioner may pre

scribe a reasonable fee for furnishing such copy. "(b) INSPECTION BY STATES.

"(2) STATE BODIES OR COMMISSIONS.-All income returns filed under this chapter (or copies thereof, if so prescribed by regulations made under this subsection), shall be open to inspection by any official, body, or commission, lawfully charged with the administration of any State tax law, if the inspection is for the purpose of such administration or for the purpose of obtaining information to be furnished to local taxing authorities as provided in this paragraph. The inspection shall be permitted only upon written request of the governor of such State, designating the representative of such official body, or commission to make the inspection on behalf of such official body, or commission. The inspection shall be made in such manner, and at such times and places, as shall be prescribed by regulations made by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary. Any information thus secured by any official, body, or commission of any State may be used only for the administration of the tax laws of such State, except that upon written request of the Governor of such State any such information may be furnished to any official, body, or commission of any political subdivision of such State, lawfully charged with the administration of the tax laws of such political subdivision, but may be furnished only for the purpose of, and may be used only for, the administration of such tax laws.

"(d) INSPECTION BY COMMITTEES OF COngress.

"(1) COMMITTEES ON WAYS AND MEANS AND FINANCE.

"(A) The Secretary and any officer or employee of the Treasury Department, upon request from the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Finance of the Senate, or a select committee of the Senate or House specially authorized to investigate returns by a resolution of the Senate or House, or a joint committee so authorized

1 See "The provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, relating to the individual income tax" compiled by members of the staff of the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation.

by concurrent resolution, shall furnish such committee sitting in executive session with any data of any character contained in or shown by any return.

"(B) Any such committee shall have the right, acting directly as a committee, or by or through such examiners or agents as it may designate or appoint, to inspect any or all of the returns at such times and in such manner as it may determine.

"(C) Any relevant or useful information thus obtained may be submitted by the committee obtaining it to the Senate or the House, or to both the Senate and the House, as the case may be. "(2) JOINT COMMITTEE ON INTERNAL REVENUE TAXATION.-The Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation shall have the same right to obtain data and to inspect returns as the Committee on Ways and Means or the Committee on Finance, and to submit any relevant or useful information thus obtained to the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Committee on Ways and Means, or the Committee on Finance. The Committee on Ways and Means or the Committee on Finance may submit such information to the House or to the Senate, or to both the House and the Senate, as the case may be.

"(f) PENALTIES FOR DISCLOSING INFORMATION.

"(2) STATE EMPLOYEES.-Any officer, employee, or agent of any State or political subdivision who divulges (except as authorized in paragraph 2 of subsection (b), or when called upon to testify in any judicial or administrative proceeding to which the State or political subdivision, or such State or local official, body, or commission, as such, is a party) any information acquired by him through an inspection permitted him or another under paragraph 2 of subsection (b) shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall upen conviction be punished by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both."

SEC. 1605. PAYMENT OF TAXES.

(a) ADMINISTRATION.-The tax imposed by this subchapter shall be collected by the Bureau of Internal Revenue under the direction of the Secretary and shall be paid into the Treasury as internal revenue collections.

(b) ADDITION TO TAX IN CASE OF DELINQUENCY.-If the tax is not paid when due, there shall be added as part of the tax interest at the rate of 6 per centum per annum from the date the tax became due until paid.

(c) INSTALLMENT PAYMENTS.-The taxpayer may elect to pay the tax in four equal installments instead of in a single payment, in which case the first installment shall be paid not later than the last day prescribed for the filing of returns, the second installment shall be paid on or before the last day of the third month, the third installment on or before the last day of the sixth month, and the fourth installment on or before the last day of the ninth month, after such last day. If the tax or any installment thereof is not paid on or before the last day of the period fixed for its payment, the whole amount of the tax unpaid shall be paid upon notice and demand from the collector.

(d) EXTENSION OF TIME FOR PAYMENT.-At the request of the taxpayer the time for payment of the tax or any installment thereof may be extended, under regulations prescribed by the Commissioner with the approval of the Secretary, for a period not to exceed six months from the last day of the period prescribed for the payment of the tax or any installment thereof. The amount of the tax in respect of which any extension is granted shall be paid (with interest at the rate of

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