2018 US Code
Title 26 - Internal Revenue Code
Subtitle F - Procedure and Administration
Chapter 77 - Miscellaneous Provisions
Sec. 7512 - Separate accounting for certain collected taxes, etc.

Whenever any person who is required to collect, account for, and pay over any tax imposed by subtitle C or chapter 33—

then all the requirements of subsection (b) shall be complied with. In the case of a corporation, partnership, or trust, notice delivered in hand to an officer, partner, or trustee, shall, for purposes of this section, be deemed to be notice delivered in hand to such corporation, partnership, or trust and to all officers, partners, trustees, and employees thereof.

Any person who is required to collect, account for, and pay over any tax imposed by subtitle C or chapter 33, if notice has been delivered to such person in accordance with subsection (a), shall collect the taxes imposed by subtitle C or chapter 33 which become collectible after delivery of such notice, shall (not later than the end of the second banking day after any amount of such taxes is collected) deposit such amount in a separate account in a bank (as defined in section 581), and shall keep the amount of such taxes in such account until payment over to the United States. Any such account shall be designated as a special fund in trust for the United States, payable to the United States by such person as trustee.

Whenever the Secretary is satisfied, with respect to any notification made under subsection (a), that all requirements of law and regulations with respect to the taxes imposed by subtitle C or chapter 33, as the case may be, will henceforth be complied with, he may cancel such notification. Such cancellation shall take effect at such time as is specified in the notice of such cancellation.

(Added Pub. L. 85–321, §1, Feb. 11, 1958, 72 Stat. 5; amended Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, §1906(b)(13)(A), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1834; Pub. L. 96–223, title I, §101(c)(3), Apr. 2, 1980, 94 Stat. 251; Pub. L. 100–418, title I, §1941(b)(2)(O), Aug. 23, 1988, 102 Stat. 1324.)

1988—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 100–418, §1941(b)(2)(O)(i), substituted "or chapter 33" for ", by chapter 33, or by section 4986" in introductory provisions.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 100–418, §1941(b)(2)(O)(i), (ii), substituted "or chapter 33" for ", by chapter 33, or by section 4986" and "or chapter 33" for ", chapter 33, or section 4986".

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 100–418, §1941(b)(2)(O)(ii), substituted "or chapter 33" for ", chapter 33, or section 4986".

1980—Subsecs. (a) to (c). Pub. L. 96–223 inserted references to tax imposed by section 4986.

1976—Pub. L. 94–455 struck out "or his delegate" after "Secretary" wherever appearing.

Amendment by Pub. L. 100–418 applicable to crude oil removed from the premises on or after Aug. 23, 1988, see section 1941(c) of Pub. L. 100–418, set out as a note under section 164 of this title.

Amendment by Pub. L. 96–223 applicable to periods after Feb. 29, 1980, see section 101(i) of Pub. L. 96–223, set out as a note under section 6161 of this title.

Pub. L. 85–321, §4, Feb. 11, 1958, 72 Stat. 6, as amended by Pub. L. 99–514, §2, Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095, provided that: "Notification may be made under section 7512(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 [formerly I.R.C. 1954] (as added by the first section of this Act)—