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Version 36 · Passed House amended · Feb 25, 2014
Taxpayer Transparency and Efficient Audit Act - Requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS): (1) to provide a substantive written response (not merely an acknowledgment letter) to any written correspondence from a taxpayer not later than 30 days after receiving such correspondence; (2) within 30 days after disclosing taxpayer information to any federal, state, or local governmental entity, to provide to the taxpayer a written notification describing the information, to whom it was disclosed, and when it was disclosed; (3) to provide the taxpayer a written letter explaining why an audit of such taxpayer has taken more than one year to complete; and (4) to use amounts authorized or appropriated outside of this Act to carry out such requirements.
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Rep. Roskam, Peter J. [R-IL-6] · R–IL
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Received in the Senate.
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H1917)
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H1917)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 2530.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H1917-1919)
Mr. Roskam moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended. (consideration: CR H1917)
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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