How it works

From an IRS release to a cited sentence.

What happens between a document’s publication and a sentence in your answer, followed with one real ruling: IRS Private Letter Ruling 202627005.

01Published

The IRS releases a document.

A private letter ruling is published on irs.gov with its number and release date. The ruling answers one taxpayer’s request, so it is recorded as nonprecedential from the start, and that status stays with every passage taken from it.

Publisher
Internal Revenue Service
Document
IRS Private Letter Ruling 202627005
Released
July 2, 2026
Address
irs.gov/pub/irs-wd/202627005.pdf
Status
Private letter ruling · Nonprecedential
The public record as the IRS released it.

02Kept

The original is kept as published.

Virtus stores the publisher’s file unchanged and identifies it by its fingerprint. The text it searches is derived from that file and kept separately, so the document you open is always the one the IRS released.

202627005.pdf

Original file, stored as published

SHA-256 fingerprint

ba970100e1e0ab52beeb4f40d1940f17766e4f8f620b5ebe9e2a2d27b8838ed6

The original

Never edited. It is what you open and download.

The searchable text

Derived from it and kept separately.

The fingerprint of the public PDF. Any copy can be checked against it.

03Read by page

The text is read page by page.

Each passage keeps the page it sits on; a Code section or regulation keeps its section. Text from a scanned page is identified as a transcription, and a page that cannot be read reliably is held back.

  1. Page 3

    Section 1361(a)(1) provides that the term “S corporation” means, with respect to any taxable year, a small business corporation for which an election under § 1362(a) is in effect for the taxable year.

  2. Page 4

    Sections 301.9100-1 through 301.9100-3 provide the standards the Commissioner will use to determine whether to grant an extension of time to make an election.

    Based solely on the facts submitted and representations made, we conclude that X has satisfied the requirements of §§ 301.9100-1 and 301.9100-3 with respect to the QSub elections for Sub 1, Sub 2, Sub 3, Sub 4, Sub 5, and Sub 9.

Three passages from the ruling, verbatim, each with the page it sits on.

04Found

Your question finds passages.

A question in plain words is searched against those passages. What comes back is a set of candidates with their pages. A matching word tells Virtus where to look; it is not yet evidence.

Did the IRS give more time for the missed QSub elections?

Passages retrieved for the question

  1. p. 4Based solely on the facts submitted and representations made, we conclude…
  2. p. 4Sections 301.9100-1 through 301.9100-3 provide the standards…
  3. p. 3Section 1361(a)(1) provides that the term “S corporation” means…
Illustrative retrieval for the example question. A retrieved passage is a candidate, not yet an answer.

05Checked

Every sentence is checked.

The answer is written from the retrieved passages. Before it is shown, each sentence must carry a citation that resolves to a published passage, with its exact page or section and matching text. A sentence that fails is removed. If none survive, you see “No cited answer” instead.

Draft answer, sentence by sentence

The IRS concluded that the taxpayer met the requirements for more time under §§ 301.9100-1 and 301.9100-3 to make QSub elections it had missed for six subsidiaries. 1

Kept · [1] resolves to IRS Private Letter Ruling 202627005, page 4, and the quoted text matches

Relief of this kind is granted automatically for any late election, whatever the facts.

Removed · no published passage supports it

Original IRS PDF, page 4
Illustrative. The removed sentence is invented for this example; the kept sentence, its citation and page are real.

Go further

What a citation proves, and what it leaves to you.

The method and its limits, in more detail.

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