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.

3.0.0 2114 2023-01-11T13:35:58Z 2023-01-11T13:35:58Z House HR 2017-04-20 115 [Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 68 (Thursday, April 20, 2017)]From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]By Mr. YOHO:H.R. 2114.Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuantto the following:Article I, Section 8, Clause 1; Article 1, Section 8,Clause 18____________________[Page H2812]]]> hswm00 Ways and Means Committee House Standing Referred to 2017-04-20T20:01:30Z 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. 115 156 S 2017-01-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS 2017-04-20 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. IntroReferral H11100 2 House floor actions hswm00 Ways and Means Committee 2017-04-20 Introduced in House IntroReferral Intro-H 9 Library of Congress 2017-04-20 Introduced in House IntroReferral 1000 9 Library of Congress Y000065 Rep. Yoho, Ted S. [R-FL-3] Ted Yoho R FL S. 3 N Taxation Computer security and identity theft Congressional oversight Fraud offenses and financial crimes Tax administration and collection, taxpayers Taxation

00 2017-04-20 Introduced in House 2017-04-26T17:27:27Z This bill directs the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process designed to prevent tax refund fraud involving electronic identity theft.

Prior to implementing the measures, the IRS must: (1) establish and carry out a one-year pilot program to implement security measures, including the use of security questions, in the electronic tax return filing process in select counties across the United States where tax refund fraud involving electronic identity theft is most prevalent; and (2) submit to Congress recommendations on how to expand the process nationwide.

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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. Display Title 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. Official Title as Introduced 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. Introduced in House IH Introduced in House 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115hr2114ih/xml/BILLS-115hr2114ih.xml 2017-04-20 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.