Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 90 Part 2.djvu/200

 90 STAT. 1668

"Officer or employee."

Ante, p. 1660.

PUBLIC LAW 94^55—OCT. 4, 1976 " (1) no officer or employee of the United States, "(2) no officer or employee of any State or of any local child support enforcement agency who has or had access to returns or return information under this section, and "(3) no other person (or officer or employee thereof) who has or had access to returns or return information under subsection (e)(1)(D) (iii) or subsection (n), shall disclose any return or return information obtained by him in any manner in connection with his service as such an officer or an employee or otherwise or under the provisions of this section. For purposes of this subsection, the term 'officer or employee' includes a former officer or employee. " (b) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section— "(1) RETURN.—The term 'return' means any tax or information return, declaration of estimated tax, or claim for refund required by, or provided for or permitted under, the provisions of this title which is filed with the Secretary by, on behalf of, or with respect to any person, and any amendment or supplement thereto, including supporting schedules, attachments, or lists which are supplemental to, or part of, the return so filed. "(2) RETURN INFORMATION.—The term 'return information' means— "(A) a taxpayer's identity, the nature, source, or amount of his income, payments, receipts, deductions, exemptions, credits, assets, liabilities, net worth, tax liability, tax withheld, deficiencies, overassessments, or tax payments, whether the taxpayer's return was, is being, or will be examined or subject to other investigation or processing, or any other data, received by, recorded by, prepared by, furnished to, or collected by the Secretary with respect to a return or with respect to the determination of the existence, or possible existence, of liability (or the amount thereof) of any person under this title for any tax, penalty, interest, fine, forfeiture, or other imposition, or offense, and " (B) any part of any written determination or any background file document relating to such written determination (as such terms are defined in section 6110(b)) which is not open to public inspection under section 6110, but such term does not include data in a form which cannot be associated with, or otherwise identify, directly or indirectly, a particular taxpayer. "(3) TAXPAYER RETURN INFORMATION.—The term 'taxpayer return information' means return information as defined in paragraph (2) which is filed with, or furnished to, the Secretary by or on behalf of the taxpayer to whom such return information relates. "(4) TAX ADMINISTRATION.—The term 'tax administration'— "(A) means— "(i) the administration, management, conduct, direction, and supervision of the execution and application of the internal revenue laws or related statutes (or equivalent laws and statutes of a State) and tax conventions to which the United States is a party, and "(ii) the development and formulation of Federal tax policy relating to existing or proposed internal revenue laws, related statutes, and tax conventions, and

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