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title: "26 U.S.C. § 6064"
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title_name: "INTERNAL REVENUE CODE"
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# 26 U.S.C. § 6064 - Signature presumed authentic

## Text

The fact that an individual’s name is signed to a return, statement, or other document shall be prima facie evidence for all purposes that the return, statement, or other document was actually signed by him.

(Aug. 16, 1954, ch. 736, 68A Stat. 749.)