Executive Order 9499—Inspection of Income, Excess-Profits, Declared Value Excess-Profits, and Capital Stock Tax Returns by the Department of Commerce
By virtue of the authority vested in me by sections 55 (a), 508, 603, 1204, and 729 (a) of the Internal Revenue Code (53 Stat. 1, 29, 111, 171; 54 Stat. 974, 989), it is hereby ordered that income, excess-profits, declared value excess-profits, and capital stock tax returns made under the Internal Revenue Code for the year 1941 and subsequent years shall be open to inspection by the Department of Commerce, subject to the conditions in the Treasury decision relating to the inspection of such returns by such Department approved by me this date.
This order shall be published in the Federal Register.
FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
The White House,
November 11, 1944.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Executive Order 9499—Inspection of Income, Excess-Profits, Declared Value Excess-Profits, and Capital Stock Tax Returns by the Department of Commerce Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/355123