[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 18]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 26CFR301.6672-1]

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                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
    CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
PART 301_PROCEDURE AND ADMINISTRATION--Table of Contents
 
   Additions to the Tax, Additional Amounts, and Assessable Penalties
 
Sec. 301.6672-1  Failure to collect and pay over tax, or attempt to evade 
or defeat tax.

    Any person required to collect, truthfully account for, and pay over 
any tax imposed by the Code who willfully fails to collect such tax, or 
truthfully account for and pay over such tax, or willfully attempts in 
any manner to evade or defeat any such tax or the payment thereof, 
shall, in addition to other penalties, be liable to a penalty equal to 
the total amount of the tax evaded, or not collected, or not accounted 
for and paid over. The penalty

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imposed by section 6672 applies only to the collection, accounting for, 
or payment over of taxes imposed on a person other than the person who 
is required to collect, account for, and pay over such taxes. No penalty 
under section 6653, relating to failure to pay tax, shall be imposed for 
any offense to which this section is applicable. For further guidance 
regarding the determination of the proper address for mailing the notice 
required under section 6672(b)(1), see Sec. 301.6212-2.

[32 FR 15241, Nov. 3, 1967, as amended by T.D. 8939, 66 FR 2821, Jan. 
12, 2001]