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26 USC § 6726 - Failure to comply with information reporting requirements relating to qualified opportunity funds and qualified rural opportunity funds

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identifier: "/us/usc/t26/s6726"
source: "usc"
legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "26 USC § 6726 - Failure to comply with information reporting requirements relating to qualified opportunity funds and qualified rural opportunity funds"
title_number: 26
title_name: "INTERNAL REVENUE CODE"
section_number: "6726"
section_name: "Failure to comply with information reporting requirements relating to qualified opportunity funds and qualified rural opportunity funds"
chapter_number: 68
chapter_name: "ADDITIONS TO THE TAX, ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS, AND ASSESSABLE PENALTIES"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "Assessable Penalties"
part_number: "II"
part_name: "FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH CERTAIN INFORMATION REPORTING REQUIREMENTS"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-04-17"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Added Pub. L. 119–21, title VII, § 70421(d)(2)(A), July 4, 2025, 139 Stat. 230.)"
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# § 6726. Failure to comply with information reporting requirements relating to qualified opportunity funds and qualified rural opportunity funds

**(a)** **In general** If any person required to file a return under section 6039K fails to file a complete and correct return under such section in the time and in the manner prescribed therefor, such person shall pay a penalty of $500 for each day during which such failure continues.

**(b)** **Limitation**

**(1)** **In general** The maximum penalty under this section on failures with respect to any 1 return shall not exceed $10,000.

**(2)** **Large qualified opportunity funds** In the case of any failure described in subsection (a) with respect to a fund the gross assets of which (determined on the last day of the taxable year) are in excess of $10,000,000, paragraph (1) shall be applied by substituting “$50,000” for “$10,000”.

**(c)** **Penalty in cases of intentional disregard** If a failure described in subsection (a) is due to intentional disregard, then—

**(1)** subsection (a) shall be applied by substituting “$2,500” for “$500”,

**(2)** subsection (b)(1) shall be applied by substituting “$50,000” for “$10,000”, and

**(3)** subsection (b)(2) shall be applied by substituting “$250,000” for “$50,000”.

**(d)** **Inflation adjustment**

**(1)** **In general** In the case of any failure relating to a return required to be filed in a calendar year beginning after 2025, each of the dollar amounts in subsections (a), (b), and (c) shall be increased by an amount equal to—

**(A)** such dollar amount, multiplied by

**(B)** the cost-of-living adjustment determined under section 1(f)(3) for the calendar year determined by substituting “calendar year 2024” for “calendar year 2016” in subparagraph (A)(ii) thereof.

**(2)** **Rounding**

**(A)** **In general** If the $500 dollar amount in subsection (a) and (c)(1) or the $2,500 amount in subsection (c)(1), after being increased under paragraph (1), is not a multiple of $10, such dollar amount shall be rounded to the next lowest multiple of $10.

**(B)** **Asset threshold** If the $10,000,000 dollar amount in subsection (b)(2), after being increased under paragraph (1), is not a multiple of $10,000, such dollar amount shall be rounded to the next lowest multiple of $10,000.

**(C)** **Other dollar amounts** If any dollar amount in subsection (b) or (c) (other than any amount to which subparagraph (A) or (B) applies), after being increased under paragraph (1), is not a multiple of $1,000, such dollar amount shall be rounded to the next lowest multiple of $1,000.

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**Source Credit**: (Added Pub. L. 119–21, title VII, § 70421(d)(2)(A), July 4, 2025, 139 Stat. 230.)

## Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section applicable to taxable years beginning after , see , set out as an Effective Date of 2025 Amendment note under .