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power to make such order as he shall deem proper, not inconsistent with the law for the punishment of contempts, to enforce obedience to the requirements of the summons and to punish such person for his default or disobedience.

SEC. 3616. PENALTIES.

Whenever any person

(a) FALSE RETURNS.-Delivers or discloses to the collector or deputy any false or fraudulent list, return, account, or statement, with intent to defeat or evade the valuation, enumeration, or assessment intended to be made; or,

(b) NEGLECT TO OBEY SUMMONS.-Being duly summoned to appear to testify, or to appear and produce books as required under section 3615, neglects to appear or to produce said bookshe shall be fined not exceeding $1,000, or be imprisoned not exceed ing one year, or both, at the discretion of the court, with costs of prosecution.

(c) CROSS REFERENCE.

For additions to tax in case of fraud or of failure to file returns, see section 3612 (d).

SUBCHAPTER C-MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS

SEC. 3630. CLASSIFICATION OF AND TIME FOR TAKING LISTS OR RETURNS.

Lists or returns shall, where not otherwise specially provided for, be taken with reference to the day fixed for that purpose by this title; and, where taxes accrue at other and different times, the list shall be taken with reference to the time when said taxes become due, and shall be denominated annual, monthly, and special lists or returns.

SEC. 3631. RESTRICTIONS ON EXAMINATION OF TAXPAYERS.

No taxpayer shall be subjected to unnecessary examinations or investigations, and only one inspection of a taxpayer's books of account shall be made for each taxable year unless the taxpayer requests otherwise or unless the Commissioner, after investigation, notifies the taxpayer in writing that an additional inspection is necessary.

SEC. 3632. AUTHORITY TO ADMINISTER OATHS, TAKE TESTIMONY AND CERTIFY.

(a) INTERNAL REVENUE PERSONNEL.

(1) PERSONS IN CHARGE OF ADMINISTRATION OF INTERNAL REVENUE LAWS GENERALLY.-Every collector, deputy collector, internal revenue agent, and internal revenue officer assigned to duty under an internal revenue agent is authorized to administer oaths and to take evidence touching any part of the administration of the internal revenue laws with which he is charged, or where such oaths and evidence are authorized by law or regulation authorized by law to be taken.

(2) PERSONS IN CHARGE OF EXPORTS AND DRAWBACKS.—Every collector of internal revenue and every superintendent of exports

and drawbacks is authorized to administer such oaths and to certify to such papers as may be necessary under any regulation prescribed under the authority of the internal revenue laws. (b) OTHERS.-Any oath or affirmation required or authorized by any internal revenue law or by any regulations made under authority thereof may be administered by any person authorized to administer oaths for general purposes by the law of the United States, or of any State, Territory, or possession of the United States, or of the District of Columbia, wherein such oath or affirmation is administered, or by any consular officer of the United States. This subsection shall not be construed as an exclusive enumeration of the persons who may administer such oaths or affirmations.

SEC. 3633. JURISDICTION OF DISTRICT COURTS.

(a) TO ENFORCE SUMMONS.-If any person is summoned under the internal revenue laws to appear, to testify, or to produce books, papers, or other data, the district court of the United States for the district in which such person resides shall have jurisdiction by appropriate process to compel such attendance, testimony, or production of books, papers, or other data.

(b) To ISSUE ORDERS, PROCESSES, AND JUDGMENTS

For authority of district courts to issue orders, processes, and judgments for enforcement of internal revenue laws, see section 3800.1

SEC. 3634. EXTENSION OF TIME FOR FILING RETURNS.

If the failure to file a return * * * or list at the time prescribed by law or by regulation made under authority of law is due to sickness or absence, the collector may allow such further time, not exceeding 30 days, for making and filing the return or list as he deems proper. [For postponements by reason of war, see section 3804.]

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SEC. 3640. ASSESSMENT AUTHORITY.

The Commissioner is authorized and required to make the inquiries, determinations, and assessments of all taxes and penalties imposed by this title where such taxes have not been duly paid by

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stamp at the time and in the manner provided by law.

SEC. 3641. CERTIFICATION OF ASSESSMENT LISTS TO COLLECTORS. The Commissioner shall certify a list of such assessments when made to the proper collectors, respectively, who shall proceed to collect and account for the taxes and penalties so certified.

SEC. 3642. SUPPLEMENTAL ASSESSMENT LISTS.

(a) AUTHORIZATION.-Whenever it is ascertained that any list delivered to any collector is imperfect or incomplete in consequence of the omission of the name of any person liable to tax, or in consequence of any omission, or understatement, or undervaluation, or false or fraudulent statement contained in any return made by any person liable to tax, the Commissioner may, at any time within the period prescribed for assessment, enter on any monthly or special list:

(1) ORIGINAL ASSESSMENTS.-The name of such person so omitted, together with the amount of tax for which he may be liable, and also

(2) ADDITIONAL ASSESSMENTS.-The name of any such person in respect to whose return, as aforesaid, there has been any omission, undervaluation, understatement, or false or fraudulent statement, together with the amount for which such person may be liable, above the amount for which he may have been assessed upon any return made as aforesaid.

(b) CERTIFICATION TO COLLECTOR.-The Commissioner shall certify and return such list to the collector as required by law.

SEC. 3643. OTHER LAWS APPLICABLE.

All provisions of law for the ascertainment of liability to any tax, or the assessment or collection thereof, shall be held to apply, so far as may be necessary, to the proceedings authorized and directed under this chapter.

SEC. 3644. ESTABLISHMENT BY REGULATION OF MODE OR TIME OF ASSESSMENT.

Whenever the mode or time of assessing any tax which is imposed is not provided for, the Commissioner may establish the same by regulation.

SEC. 3645. PERIODS OF LIMITATION UPON ASSESSMENT.

For the periods of limitation prescribed for making assessments, see the following:

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Employment taxes, section 3312.
Safe deposit boxes, section 3312.
Firearms, section 3312.

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Tobacco, snuff, cigars, and cigarettes, sections 2002 (b) and 3312.
Documents, other instruments, and playing cards, section 3312.
Admissions and dues, section 3312.

Oleomargarine, sections 3311 and 3312.

Adulterated and process or renovated butter, sections 3311 and

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Filled cheese, sections 3311 and 3312.

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Narcotics, section 3312.

White phosphorus matches, section 3312.

Cotton futures, section 3312.

Pistols and revolvers, section 3312.

Circulation other than of national banks, section 3312.

Liquor-Distilled spirits, section 3312; Wines, section 3312; Fermented liquors, section 3312; Occupational taxes, section 3312.

SEC. 3646. CROSS REFERENCES.

For prohibition of suits to restrain assessment of any tax, see section 3653.

For prohibition upon assessment of taxes against insolvent banks, see section 3798.

CHAPTER 36-COLLECTION

SUBCHAPTER A-GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 3650. COLLECTION DISTRICTS.

(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND ALTERATION. For the purpose of assessing, levying, and collecting the taxes provided by the internal revenue laws, the President may establish convenient collection districts, and may from time to time alter said districts.

(b) NUMBER.-The whole number of collection districts for the collection of internal revenue shall not exceed 65.

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(c) BOUNDARIES.

(1) HAWAII. The Territory of Hawaii shall constitute a district for the collection of the internal revenue of the United States, with a collector, whose office shall be at Honolulu, and deputy collectors at such other places in the several islands as the Secretary shall direct.

(2) ELSEWHERE.-For the purpose mentioned in subsection (a), the President may subdivide any State, Territory, or the District of Columbia, or may unite two or more States or Territories into one district.

SEC. 3651. COLLECTION AUTHORITY.

(a) IN GENERAL.—

(1) WITHIN DISTRICT.-It shall be the duty of the collectors or their deputies, in their respective districts, and they are authorized, to collect all the taxes imposed by law, however the same may be designated.

(2) OUTSIDE DISTRICT.

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For authority of collector or deputy to collect taxes by distraint outside his own collection district, but within the State, see section 3713. (b) TRANSFERRED ASSESSMENTS. -Whenever a collector has on any list duly returned to him the name of any person not within his collection district who is liable to tax, or of any person so liable who has, in the collection district in which he resides, no sufficient property subject to seizure or distraint, from which the money due for tax can be collected, such collector shall transmit a statement containing the name of the person liable to such tax, with the amount and nature thereof, duly certified under his hand, to the collector of any district to which said person shall have removed, or in which he shall have property, real or personal, liable to be seized and sold for tax. And the collector to whom the said certified statement is transmitted shall proceed to collect the said tax in the same way as if the name of the person and objects of tax contained in the said certified statement were on any list of his own collection district; and he shall, upon receiving said certified statement as aforesaid, transmit his receipt for it to the collector sending the same to him.

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