---
kind: "section"
citation: "26 U.S.C. § 116"
title: "26"
title_heading: "Internal Revenue Code"
number: "116"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 99–514, title VI, § 612(a), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2250"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/26/116"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — Income Taxes"
  - "Chapter 1 — Normal Taxes and Surtaxes"
  - "Subchapter B — Computation of Taxable Income"
  - "Part III — Items Specifically Excluded from Gross Income"
---

# [§116. Repealed. Pub. L. 99–514, title VI, § 612(a), Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2250 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 37; June 25, 1959, Pub. L. 86–69, § 3(a)(2), 73 Stat. 139; Sept. 14, 1960, Pub. L. 86–779, § 10(f), 74 Stat. 1009; Feb. 26, 1964, Pub. L. 88–272, title II, § 201(c), (d)(6)(C), 78 Stat. 32; Nov. 13, 1966, Pub. L. 89–809, title I, § 103(g), 80 Stat. 1552; Oct. 4, 1976, Pub. L. 94–455, title X, §§ 1051(h)(2), 1053(d)(1), title XIX, § 1901(a)(20), 90 Stat. 1647, 1649, 1766; Apr. 2, 1980, Pub. L. 96–223, title IV, § 404(a), 94 Stat. 305; Aug. 13, 1981, Pub. L. 97–34, title III, § 302(b)(2), 95 Stat. 272; July 18, 1984, Pub. L. 98–369, div. A, title V, § 542(b), 98 Stat. 891, authorized partial exclusion of dividends received by individuals.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal applicable to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 1986, see section 612(c) of Pub. L. 99–514, set out as an Effective Date of 1986 Amendment note under section 301 of this title.