26 U.S.C. § 6340
Section 6340 · Records of sale
Amended 3 times on record
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case 496 F. Supp. 903 - Brown v. United States (1980)
Most recently applied in Sanders v. Williams (June 2001)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Secretary shall, for each internal revenue district, keep a record of all sales of property under section 6335 and of redemptions of such property. The record shall set forth the tax for which any such sale was made, the dates of seizure and sale, the name of the party assessed and all proceedings in making such sale, the amount of expenses, the names of the purchasers, and the date of the deed or certificate of sale of personal property.
A copy of such record, or any part thereof, certified by the Secretary shall be evidence in any court of the truth of the facts therein stated.
The taxpayer with respect to whose liability the sale was conducted or who redeemed the property shall be furnished—
(1) the record under subsection (a) (other than the names of the purchasers);
(2) the amount from such sale applied to the taxpayer's liability; and
(3) the remaining balance of such liability.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Amendments
1998—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 105–206, §3442(a)(1), struck out “real” after “sales of” and inserted “or certificate of sale of personal property” after “deed”.
Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–206, §3442(a)(2), added subsec. (c).
1976—Pub. L. 94–455 struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary” wherever appearing.
Effective Date of 1998 Amendment
Pub. L. 105–206, title III, §3442(b), July 22, 1998, 112 Stat. 762, provided that: “The amendments made by this section [amending this section] shall apply to seizures occurring after the date of the enactment of this Act [July 22, 1998].”