---
kind: "section"
citation: "26 U.S.C. § 4"
title: "26"
title_heading: "Internal Revenue Code"
number: "4"
heading: "Repealed. Pub. L. 94–455, title V, § 501(b)(1), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1558"
status: "repealed"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/26/4"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — Income Taxes"
  - "Chapter 1 — Normal Taxes and Surtaxes"
  - "Subchapter A — Determination of Tax Liability"
  - "Part I — Tax on Individuals"
---

# [§4. Repealed. Pub. L. 94–455, title V, § 501(b)(1), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1558 — repealed]



## Notes

Section, acts Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 10; Feb. 26, 1964, Pub. L. 88–272, title II, § 232(f)(1), title III, § 301(b)(1), (3), 78 Stat. 111, 140; Dec. 30, 1969, Pub. L. 91–172, title VIII, § 802(c)(1)–(3), 83 Stat. 677, 678; Dec. 10, 1971, Pub. L. 92–178, title III, § 301(b), 85 Stat. 520, related to rules for optional tax.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of Repeal

Repeal applicable to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 1975, see section 508 of Pub. L. 94–455, set out as an Effective Date of 1976 Amendment note under section 3 of this title.