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Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2017 [S.157]
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Seniors' Tax Simplification Act of 2017 This bill directs the Internal Revenue Service to make available to taxpayers who have turned age 65 at the close of the taxable year a new federal income tax Form 1040SR (similar to the existing Form 1040EZ). Such taxpayers can use this new form even if their income includes: (1) Social Security benefits; (2) distributions from qualified retirement plans, annuities, or other such deferred payment arrangements; (3) interest and dividends; or (4) capital gains and losses. The form must be available without
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Lee
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 01/17/2017
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A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft. [S.156]
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A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft. This bill directs the Internal Revenue Service to implement security measures, including the use of security questions, in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated through electronic identity theft.
Sponsored by: Sen. Marco Rubio
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 01/17/2017
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Presidential Tax Disclosure Act of 2017 [HB-540]
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Presidential Tax Disclosure Act of 2017 7 This bill requires any individual holding the office of President to submit federal tax returns to the Office of Government Ethics (OGE). The individual must submit: (1) each return filed with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for any year ending while the individual is President, and (2) each return filed with the IRS for the three years before the individual assumed office. After receiving the returns, the OGE must: (1) make the returns publicly available on the Internet, and (2) submit the returns to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Introduced In House on 01/13/2017
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Military Residency Choice Act [HB-578]
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Military Residency Choice Act This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit the spouse of a servicemember to elect to use the same residence as the servicemember for purposes of taxation and voting, regardless of the date on which the marriage of the spouse and the servicemember occurred.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert J. Wittman
Referred To The Subcommittee On Economic Opportunity. on 02/03/2017
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Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 [HB-439]
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Stolen Identity Refund Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 7 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to take several actions to prevent and respond to tax-related identity theft and tax fraud. Treasury or the IRS must: establish a centralized point of contact for identify theft victims; provide notifications, instructions, and forms to suspected victims of identity theft; provide various reports to Congress regarding identity theft, tax refund fraud, and related prevention
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Introduced In House on 01/11/2017
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Tax Accountability Act of 2017 [HB-396]
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Tax Accountability Act of 2017 This bill declares that no government contracts or grants should be awarded to individuals or companies with seriously delinquent federal tax debts. Agencies offering a grant or issuing a solicitation for bids or a request for proposals for a contract in an amount greater than the simplified acquisition threshold (currently $150,000) shall require each person that submits a grant application, bid, or proposal to: (1) certify whether such person has a seriously delinquent tax debt, and (2) authorize the Department of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Chaffetz
Introduced In House on 01/10/2017
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Members of Congress Tax Accountability Act of 2017 [HB-397]
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Members of Congress Tax Accountability Act of 2017 This bill amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require Members of Congress to include in their annual financial disclosure reports the amount of any delinquent tax liability owed to the United States or any state or local government entity. The appropriate congressional ethics committee is required to open an inquiry immediately into the tax delinquency of that Member to determine: (1) his or her total delinquent tax liability and reason for such delinquency, (2) whether the Member has
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Chaffetz
Introduced In House on 01/10/2017
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Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act of 2017 [S.65]
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Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act of 2017 This bill requires the President and Vice President to submit to Congress and the Office of Government Ethics a disclosure of financial interests. Among the contents of such disclosure, the President and Vice President shall: (1) include a detailed description of each financial interest of the President and Vice President, the spouse of the President and Vice President, or a minor child of the President and Vice President; and (2) include the tax returns filed by or on behalf of the President and Vice
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert P. Casey
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Homeland Security And Governmental Affairs. on 01/09/2017
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Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act of 2017 [HB-371]
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Presidential Conflicts of Interest Act of 2017 This bill requires the President and Vice President to submit to Congress and the Office of Government Ethics a disclosure of financial interests. Among the contents of such disclosure, the President and Vice President shall: (1) include a detailed description of each financial interest of the President and Vice President, the spouse of the President and Vice President, or a minor child of the President and Vice President; and (2) include the tax returns filed by or on behalf of the President and Vice
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Sponsored by: Rep. Raul M. Grijalva
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 02/06/2017
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Child Tax Credit Integrity Preservation Act of 2017 [HB-363]
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Child Tax Credit Integrity Preservation Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the identification requirement for the child tax credit to require taxpayers to provide a valid identification number (i.e., a Social Security account number issued by the Social Security Administration) on their tax returns in addition to the name and identification number of each qualifying child.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Messer
Introduced In House on 01/06/2017
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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit Congress' power to impose a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services. [HJR-21]
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Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to limit Congress' power to impose a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services. This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to prohibit Congress from making any law that imposes a tax on a failure to purchase goods or services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Louie Gohmert
Referred To The Subcommittee On The Constitution And Civil Justice. on 01/12/2017
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Protect Family Farms and Businesses Act [HB-308]
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Protect Family Farms and Businesses Act This bill prohibits proposed Internal Revenue Service regulations published on August 4, 2016, relating to restrictions on liquidation of an interest with respect to estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes from taking effect. The bill prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed regulations or any substantially similar regulations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Dave Brat
Introduced In House on 01/05/2017
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Presidential Tax Transparency Act [HB-305]
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Presidential Tax Transparency Act This bill amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the President and certain candidates for President to disclose federal income tax returns for the three most recent taxable years in reports filed with either the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) or the Federal Election Commission (FEC), in the case of a candidate. The OGE or the FEC must make the disclosed tax returns publicly available after making appropriate redactions. If the income tax returns are not disclosed as required by this bill, the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Motion To Discharge Committee Filed By Ms. Eshoo. Petition No: 115-1. on 04/05/2017
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Protect Family Farms and Businesses Act [S.47]
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Protect Family Farms and Businesses Act This bill prohibits proposed Internal Revenue Service regulations published on August 4, 2016, relating to restrictions on liquidation of an interest with respect to estate, gift, and generation-skipping transfer taxes from taking effect. The bill prohibits funds from being used to finalize, implement, administer, or enforce the proposed regulations or any substantially similar regulations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jeff Flake
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 01/05/2017
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EMPLEO Act Economic Mobility for Productive Livelihoods and Expanding Opportunity Act of 2017 [S.38]
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EMPLEO Act Economic Mobility for Productive Livelihoods and Expanding Opportunity Act of 2017 This bill amends the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to require every employer to pay to each of his or her eligible Puerto Rican employees who in any workweek are engaged in commerce and who receive qualified wage subsidy payments minimum wages of $5.00 an hour, determined without regard to those wage subsidy payments. The bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat certain employers who make qualified wage subsidy payments to eligible Puerto Rico
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Sponsored by: Sen. Marco Rubio
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 01/05/2017
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Military Residency Choice Act [HB-282]
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Military Residency Choice Act (Sec. 2) This bill amends the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act to permit the spouse of a service member to elect to use the same residence as the service member for purposes of taxation and voting, regardless of the date on which the marriage of the spouse and the service member occurred.
Sponsored by: Rep. Luke Messer
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Veterans' Affairs. on 07/25/2017
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Student Job Protection Act of 2017 [HB-287]
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Student Job Protection Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude students who are employed by an institution of higher education (IHE) and carrying what the school considers a full-time academic workload at the IHE from being counted as full-time employees in calculating the IHE's shared responsibility regarding health care coverage under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael R. Turner
Introduced In House on 01/04/2017
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Presidential Tax Transparency Act [S.26]
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Presidential Tax Transparency Act This bill amends the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 to require the President and certain candidates for President to disclose federal income tax returns for the three most recent taxable years in reports filed with either the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) or the Federal Election Commission (FEC), in the case of a candidate. The OGE or the FEC must make the disclosed tax returns publicly available after making appropriate redactions. If the income tax returns are not disclosed as required by this bill, the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Rules And Administration. on 01/04/2017
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Main Street Fairness Act [HB-116]
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Main Street Fairness Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to prevent qualified business income attributed to individuals from being taxed at a higher rate than corporate income. (Under current law, business income attributed to individuals is taxed using individual income tax rates rather than the corporate tax rate.) Qualified business income is all items of income, deduction, loss, or credit properly attributable to the taxpayer from the active conduct of a trade or business, including: a partnership in which the taxpayer holds a capital
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Sponsored by: Rep. Robert J. Wittman
Introduced In House on 01/03/2017
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Donate for Disaster Relief Act of 2017 [HB-168]
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Donate for Disaster Relief Act of 2017 This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individual taxpayers to designate an amount (not less than $1) of any overpayment of income tax to a Disaster Relief Fund, established by this bill, for the purpose of providing relief for major disasters declared under the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Henry C. Johnson
Referred To The Subcommittee On Economic Development, Public Buildings And Emergency Management. on 01/04/2017