---
kind: "section"
citation: "26 U.S.C. § 6064"
title: "26"
title_heading: "Internal Revenue Code"
number: "6064"
heading: "Signature presumed authentic"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/26/6064"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Procedure and Administration"
  - "Chapter 61 — Information and Returns"
  - "Subchapter A — Returns and Records"
  - "Part IV — Signing and Verifying of Returns and Other Documents"
---

# §6064. Signature presumed authentic


The fact that an individual’s name is signed to a return, statement, or other document shall be prima facie evidence for all purposes that the return, statement, or other document was actually signed by him.


## Source credit

(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 749.)