The primary reason for obtaining this information is to ensure compliance by taxpayers electing to use both the LIFO inventory method and the IPIC method of accounting for their dollar-value inventory pools. Most respondents will be manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers of tangible personal property.
US Code:
26 USC 472
Name of Law: Last-in, first-out inventories
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(ii) Use of information;
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