---
kind: "section"
citation: "26 U.S.C. § 9006"
title: "26"
title_heading: "Internal Revenue Code"
number: "9006"
heading: "Payments to eligible candidates"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/26/9006"
units:
  - "Subtitle H — Financing of Presidential Election Campaigns"
  - "Chapter 95 — Presidential Election Campaign Fund"
---

# §9006. Payments to eligible candidates

- (a) **Establishment of campaign fund—** There is hereby established on the books of the Treasury of the United States a special [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) to be known as the “[Presidential Election](/usc/26/9002.md?p=10) Campaign [Fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5)”. The Secretary of the Treasury shall, from time to time, transfer to the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) an amount not in excess of the sum of the amounts designated (subsequent to the previous [Presidential election](/usc/26/9002.md?p=10)) to the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) by individuals under section 6096. There is appropriated to the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) for each fiscal year, out of amounts in the general [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) of the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, an amount equal to the amounts so designated during each fiscal year, which shall remain available to the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) without fiscal year limitation.
- (b) **Payments from the fund—** Upon receipt of a certification from the [Commission](/usc/26/9002.md?p=3) under [section 9005](/usc/26/9005.md) for payment to the [eligible candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=4) of a political party, the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay to such [candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=2) out of the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) the amount certified by the [Commission](/usc/26/9002.md?p=3). Amounts paid to any such [candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=2) shall be under the control of such [candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=2).
- (c) **Insufficient amounts in fund—** If at the time of a certification by the [Commission](/usc/26/9002.md?p=3) under [section 9005](/usc/26/9005.md) for payment to the [eligible candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=4) of a political party, the Secretary determines that the moneys in the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) are not, or may not be, sufficient to satisfy the full entitlements of the [eligible candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=4) of all political parties, he shall withhold from such payment such amount as he determines to be necessary to assure that the [eligible candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=4) of each political party will receive their pro rata share of their full entitlement. Amounts withheld by reason of the preceding sentence shall be paid when the Secretary determines that there are sufficient moneys in the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) to pay such amounts, or portions thereof, to all [eligible candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=4) from whom amounts have been withheld, but, if there are not sufficient moneys in the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) to satisfy the full entitlement of the [eligible candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=4) of all political parties, the amounts so withheld shall be paid in such manner that the [eligible candidates](/usc/26/9002.md?p=4) of each political party receive their pro rata share of their full entitlement. In any case in which the Secretary determines that there are insufficient moneys in the [fund](/usc/26/9002.md?p=5) to make payments under [subsection (b)](#b), [section 9008(i)(2)](/usc/26/9008.md?p=i-2), and [section 9037(b)](/usc/26/9037.md?p=b), moneys shall not be made available from any other source for the purpose of making such payments.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 92–178, title VIII, § 801, Dec. 10, 1971, 85 Stat. 567; amended Pub. L. 93–53, § 6(b), July 1, 1973, 87 Stat. 138; Pub. L. 93–443, title IV, §§ 403(a), 404(c)(8), Oct. 15, 1974, 88 Stat. 1291, 1292; Pub. L. 94–283, title III, § 302, May 11, 1976, 90 Stat. 498; Pub. L. 94–455, title XIX, §§ 1906(b)(13)(A), (B), Oct. 4, 1976, 90 Stat. 1834; Pub. L. 110–172, § 11(a)(43), Dec. 29, 2007, 121 Stat. 2488; Pub. L. 113–94, § 2(b)(1), Apr. 3, 2014, 128 Stat. 1085.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2014—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 113–94 substituted “section 9008(i)(2),” for “section 9008(b)(3),”.

2007—Pub. L. 110–172, which directed substitution of “Commission” for “Comptroller General” wherever appearing, could not be executed, because “Comptroller General” did not appear subsequent to amendment by Pub. L. 93–443, § 404(c)(8). See 1974 Amendment note below.

1976—Subsecs. (a), (b). Pub. L. 94–455 substituted “Secretary of the Treasury” for “Secretary”.

Pub. L. 94–283, § 302(a), redesignated subsec. (c) as (b). Former subsec. (b), directing that moneys remaining in the fund after a Presidential election be transferred to the general fund of the Treasury, was struck out.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 94–455, § 1906(b)(13)(A), struck out “or his delegate” after “Secretary”.

Pub. L. 94–283, § 302(a), (b), redesignated subsec. (d) as (c) and inserted provision that moneys not be made available from other sources for the purpose of making payments whenever the Secretary or his delegate determines that there are insufficient moneys in the fund to make payments under subsec. (b), section 9008(b)(3), and section 9037(b). Former subsec. (c) redesignated (b).

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 94–283, § 302(a), redesignated subsec. (d) as (c).

1974—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93–443, § 403(a), substituted “from time to time” for “as provided by Appropriation Acts” and appropriated moneys for the Campaign Fund for each fiscal year out of the general fund of the Treasury.

Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 93–443, § 404(c)(8), substituted “Commission” for “Comptroller General” wherever appearing.

1973—Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 93–53 struck out second sentence requiring the Secretary to maintain in the fund (1) a separate account for the candidates of each major party, each minor party, and each new party for which a specific designation is made under section 6096 for payment into an account in the fund and (2) a general account for which no specific designation is made, and in the last sentences, substituted “transfer to the fund”, “Presidential”, and “to the fund by individuals under section 6096”, for “transfer to each account in the fund”, “presidential”, and “to such account by individuals under section 6096 for payment into such account of the fund”, respectively.

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 93–53 substituted “Presidential” for “presidential”.

Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 93–53 substituted provisions for payment “out of the fund”, for such payment “out of the specific account in the fund” and struck out penultimate sentence limiting payments to eligible candidates from the account designated for them to the amounts in such account at the time of payment.

Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 93–53 substituted provisions for payments to eligible candidates when there are insufficient amounts in the fund, for former provisions respecting transfers from general account to separate accounts to remedy insufficient moneys to satisfy any unpaid entitlement of the eligible candidates.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 1974 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 93–443 applicable with respect to taxable years beginning after Dec. 31, 1974, see section 410(c)(1) of Pub. L. 93–443, set out as a note under section 30101 of Title 52, Voting and Elections.

### Additional Appropriations to Campaign Fund

Pub. L. 93–443, title IV, § 403(b), Oct. 15, 1974, 88 Stat. 1291, as amended by Pub. L. 99–514, § 2, Oct. 22, 1986, 100 Stat. 2095, provided that: “In addition to the amounts appropriated to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund established under section 9006 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 [formerly I.R.C. 1954] (relating to payments to eligible candidates) by the last sentence of subsection (a) of such section (as amended by subsection (a) of this section), there is appropriated to such fund an amount equal to the sum of the amounts designated for payment under section 6096 of such Code (relating to designation by individuals to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund) before January 1, 1975, not otherwise taken into account under the provisions of such section 9006, as amended by this section.”

[Provision effective Jan. 1, 1975, see section 410(a) of Pub. L. 93–443, set out as a note under section 30101 of Title 52, Voting and Elections.]

### Designation to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund

Designation made under section 6096 of this title (as in effect for taxable years beginning before Jan. 1, 1973) for the account of the candidates of any specified political party treated solely as a designation to the Presidential Election Campaign Fund, see section 6(d) of Pub. L. 93–53, set out as a note under section 6096 of this title.