---
kind: "section"
citation: "26 U.S.C. § 7621"
title: "26"
title_heading: "Internal Revenue Code"
number: "7621"
heading: "Internal revenue districts"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/26/7621"
units:
  - "Subtitle F — Procedure and Administration"
  - "Chapter 78 — Discovery of Liability and Enforcement of Title"
  - "Subchapter B — General Powers and Duties"
---

# §7621. Internal revenue districts

- (a) **Establishment and alteration—** The President shall establish convenient internal revenue districts for the purpose of administering the internal revenue laws. The President may from time to time alter such districts.
- (b) **Boundaries—** For the purpose mentioned in [subsection (a)](#a), the President may subdivide any [State](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-10), or the District of Columbia, or may unite into one district two or more [States](/usc/26/7701.md?p=a-10).

## Source credit

(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 904; Pub. L. 86–70, § 22(e), June 25, 1959, 73 Stat. 146; Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, § 1906(a)(53), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1832.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

1976—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 94–455 struck out “Territory” after “any State” and “or a Territory and one or more States” after “two or more States”.

1959—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 86–70 substituted “may unite into one district two or more States or a Territory and one or more States” for “may unite two or more States or Territories into one district”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1959 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 86–70 effective Jan. 3, 1959, see section 22(i) of Pub. L. 86–70, set out as a note under section 3121 of this title.

### Executive Documents

### Delegation of Functions

For delegation to Secretary of the Treasury of authority vested in President by this section, see section 1(g) of Ex. Ord. No. 10289, Sept. 17, 1951, 16 F.R. 9499, as amended, set out as a note under section 301 of Title 3, The President.