[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 17]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 26CFR156.6091-1]

[Page 461]
 
                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
    CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
PART 156_EXCISE TAX ON GREENMAIL--Table of Contents
 
                 Subpart B_Procedure and Administration
 
Sec. 156.6091-1  Place for filing chapter 54 (Greenmail) tax returns.

    Except as provided in Sec. 156.6091-2 (relating to exceptional 
cases):
    (a) Individuals, estates, and trusts. In general, tax returns under 
chapter 54 of the Code of individuals, estates, and trusts shall be 
filed with the district director for the internal revenue district in 
which is located the legal residence or the principal place of business 
of the person required to make the return.
    (b) Corporations. In general, tax returns under chapter 54 of the 
Code of corporations shall be filed with the district director for the 
internal revenue district in which is located the principal place of 
business or the principal office or agency of the corporation.
    (c) Partnerships. In general, tax returns under chapter 54 of the 
Code of partnerships shall be filed with the district director for the 
internal revenue district in which is located the principal place of 
business or the principal office or agency of the partnership.
    (d) Returns of taxpayers outside the United States. The return of a 
person (other than a partnership or a corporation) outside the United 
States having no legal residence or principal place of business or 
agency in any internal revenue district, or the return of a partnership 
or a corporation having no principal place of business or principal 
office or agency in any internal revenue district, shall be filed with 
the Assistant Commissioner (International), Internal Revenue Service, 
950 L'Enfant Plaza South, SW., Washington, DC 20224, unless the 
principal place of business or the legal residence of such person, or 
the principal place of business or principal office or agency of the 
partnership or corporation, is located in the Virgin Islands or Puerto 
Rico, in which case the return shall be filed with the Assistant 
Commissioner (International), Internal Revenue Service, Hato Rey, Puerto 
Rico 00918.
    (e) Returns filed with service centers or by hand carrying. 
Notwithstanding paragraph (a), (b), (c), or (d) of this section, unless 
a return is filed by hand carrying, whenever instructions applicable to 
tax returns under chapter 54 of the Code provide that the returns be 
filed with a service center, the returns must be so filed in accordance 
with the instructions. Returns that are filed by hand carrying shall be 
filed with the district director (or with any person assigned the 
administrative supervision of an area, zone, or local office 
constituting a permanent post of duty within an internal revenue 
district of such director) in accordance with paragraphs (a), (b), (c), 
or (d) of this section.

[T.D. 8379, 56 FR 65685, Dec. 18, 1991; 57 FR 5931, Feb. 18, 1992]