Franklin D. Roosevelt

Executive Order 7411—Authorization of Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, To Inspect Income, Profits, and Capital Stock Tax Returns

July 09, 1936

By virtue of and pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 257(a) of the Revenue Act of 1926 (44 Stat. 9, 51); section 55 of the Revenue Act of 1928 (45 Stat. 791,809); section 55 of the Revenue Act of 1932 (47 Stat. 169, 189), as amended by section 218(h) of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 195, 209); section 215(e) of the National Industrial Recovery Act (48 Stat. 195, 208); section 55(a) and section 701(e) of the Revenue Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 680, 698, 770); section 105(e) of the Revenue Act of 1935 (49 Stat. 1014, 1018); and section 55(a) of the Revenue Act of 1936 (Public No. 740, 74th Congress), it is hereby ordered that income, profits, and capital stock tax returns made under the Revenue Act of 1936, the Revenue Act of 1935, the Revenue Act of 1934, the National Industrial Recovery Act, the Revenue Act of 1932, as amended by the National Industrial Recovery Act, and the prior revenue acts shall be open to inspection by the Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, which committee or subcommittee is authorized by Senate Resolution 266, Seventy-Fourth Congress, second session, passed June 6, 1936, to make an investigation of violations of the rights of free speech and assembly and undue interference with the right of labor to organize and bargain collectively; such inspection to be in accordance and upon compliance with the rules and regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury in the Treasury Decision relating to the inspection of returns by that committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, approved by me this date.

Signature of Franklin D. Roosevelt
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

THE WHITE HOUSE,
July 9, 1936.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 7411—Authorization of Committee on Education and Labor, United States Senate, To Inspect Income, Profits, and Capital Stock Tax Returns Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/357308

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