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United States IRC sections

Statute section

IRC section 66

Treatment of community income

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United States

Section

66

Updated

2026-05-20

Operative text

Section 66 governs the federal income tax treatment of community income earned by spouses in community-property states. Subsection (c) provides an innocent-spouse-style relief from joint liability where one spouse did not know the income was earned by the other.

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26 U.S.C. 6015

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