---
kind: "section"
citation: "26 U.S.C. § 6045A"
title: "26"
title_heading: "Internal Revenue Code"
number: "6045A"
heading: "Information required in connection with transfers of covered securities to brokers"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/26/6045A"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Procedure and Administration"
  - "Chapter 61 — Information and Returns"
  - "Subchapter A — Returns and Records"
  - "Part III — Information Returns"
  - "Subpart B — Information Concerning Transactions With Other Persons"
---

# §6045A. Information required in connection with transfers of covered securities to brokers

- (a) **Furnishing of information—** Every applicable [person](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-1) which transfers to a broker (as defined in [section 6045(c)(1)](/usc/26/6045.md?p=c-1)) a covered security (as defined in [section 6045(g)(3)](/usc/26/6045.md?p=g-3)) in the hands of such applicable [person](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-1) shall furnish to such broker a written statement in such manner and setting forth such information as the [Secretary](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-11-B) may by regulations prescribe for purposes of enabling such broker to meet the requirements of [section 6045(g)](/usc/26/6045.md?p=g).
- (b) **Applicable person—** For purposes of [subsection (a)](#a), the term “applicable [person](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-1)” means—
  - (1) any broker (as defined in [section 6045(c)(1)](/usc/26/6045.md?p=c-1)), and
  - (2) any other [person](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-1) as provided by the [Secretary](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-11-B) in regulations.
- (c) **Time for furnishing statement—** Except as otherwise provided by the [Secretary](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-11-B), any statement required by [subsection (a)](#a) shall be furnished not later than 15 days after the date of the transfer described in such subsection.
- (d) **Return requirement for certain transfers of digital assets not otherwise subject to reporting—** Any broker, with respect to any transfer (which is not part of a sale or exchange executed by such broker) during a calendar year of a covered security which is a digital asset from an account maintained by such broker to an account which is not maintained by, or an address not associated with, a [person](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-1) that such broker knows or has reason to know is also a broker, shall make a return for such calendar year, in such form as determined by the [Secretary](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-11-B), showing the information otherwise required to be furnished with respect to transfers subject to [subsection (a)](#a).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 110–343, div. B, title IV, § 403(c)(1), Oct. 3, 2008, 122 Stat. 3858; amended Pub. L. 117–58, div. H, title VI, § 80603(b)(2)(A), Nov. 15, 2021, 135 Stat. 1340.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2021—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 117–58, § 80603(b)(2)(A)(i), struck out “a security which is” after “section 6045(c)(1))”.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 117–58, § 80603(b)(2)(A)(ii), added subsec. (d).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2021 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 117–58 applicable to returns required to be filed, and statements required to be furnished, after Dec. 31, 2023, see section 80603(c) of Pub. L. 117–58, set out as a note under section 6045 of this title.

### Effective Date

Section effective Jan. 1, 2011, see section 403(e)(1) of Pub. L. 110–343, set out as an Effective Date of 2008 Amendment note under section 1012 of this title.