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Executive Order 10455—Inspection of Income, Excess-Profits, Declared Value Excess-Profits, Capital Stock, Estate, and Gift Tax Returns by the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives

May 22, 1953

By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 55 (a), 508, 603, 729 (a), and 1204 of the Internal Revenue Code (53 Stat. 29. 111. 171; 54 Stat. 989. 1008; 55 Stat. 722; 26 U.S.C. 55 (a), 508. 603. 729 (a), and 1204), it is hereby ordered that any income, excess-profits, declared value excess-profits, capital stock, estate, or gift tax return for any period to and including 1952, shall, during the Eighty-third Congress, be open to inspection by the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof in connection with its studies of the operation of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining its economy and efficiency, subject to the conditions stated in the Treasury decision1 relating to the inspection of such returns by that Committee, approved by me this date.

This Executive order shall be effective upon its filing for publication in the Federal Register.

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

THE WHITE HOUSE,

May 22, 1953.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Executive Order 10455—Inspection of Income, Excess-Profits, Declared Value Excess-Profits, Capital Stock, Estate, and Gift Tax Returns by the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/306956

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