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26 C.F.R. § 301.6321-1 — Lien for taxes

Section 301.6321-1 restates the statutory lien of section 6321: if any person liable to pay any tax neglects or refuses to pay the same after demand, the amount (including any interest, additional amount, addition to tax, or assessable penalty, together with any costs that may accrue) shall be a lien in favor of the United States upon all property and rights to property, whether real or personal, tangible or intangible, belonging to such person, and clarifies the treatment of certain State qualified taxes, the attachment of the lien to after-acquired property, and the treatment of restricted Indian land.

Citation: 26 C.F.R. § 301.6321-1Jurisdiction: United StatesEffective: 1978-12-20

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Codified text.

If any person liable to pay any tax neglects or refuses to pay the same after demand, the amount (including any interest, additional amount, addition to tax, or assessable penalty, together with any costs that may accrue in addition thereto) shall be a lien in favor of the United States upon all property and rights to property, whether real or personal, tangible or intangible, belonging to such person. For purposes of section 6321 and this section, the term “any tax” shall include a State individual income tax which is a “qualified tax”, as defined in paragraph (b) of § 301.6361-4. The lien attaches to all property and rights to property belonging to such person at any time during the period of the lien, including any property or rights to property acquired by such person after the lien arises. Solely for purposes of sections 6321 and 6331, any interest in restricted land held in trust by the United States for an individual noncompetent Indian (and not for a tribe) shall not be deemed to be property, or a right to property, belonging to such Indian. For the method of allocating amounts collected pursuant to a lien between the Federal Government and a State or States imposing a qualified tax with respect to which the lien attached, see paragraph (f) of § 301.6361-1. For the special lien for estate and gift taxes, see section 6324 and § 301.6324-1

Editorial commentary — not part of the primary text.

Editorial note. Source credit reproduced verbatim from the Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR), current published text, Office of the Federal Register.

[T.D. 7577, 43 FR 59361, Dec. 20, 1978]

Revision history

  • 1978-12-20Promulgated by the Department of the Treasury under the Internal Revenue Code and published in the Federal Register.
Canonical source: Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR), Office of the Federal Register / National Archives and Records Administration (https://www.ecfr.gov); verified against GovInfo, U.S. Government Publishing Office, Code of Federal Regulations, Title 26 (Internal Revenue).
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