3.0.0 1704 2025-12-06T06:51:39Z 2025-12-06T06:51:39Z Senate S S 2025-05-08 119 https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/1704 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred To 2025-05-08T19:36:17Z National Taxpayer Advocate Enhancement Act of 2025 119 997 HR 2025-04-01 Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Related bill CRS 2025-05-08 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2025-05-08 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000367 Sen. Klobuchar, Amy [D-MN] Amy Klobuchar D MN N C001075 Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA] Bill Cassidy R LA 2025-05-08 True Taxation Taxation 2025-06-06T18:22:13Z 00 2025-05-08 Introduced in Senate 2025-06-09T17:12:01Z <p><strong>National Taxpayer Advocate Enhancement Act of 2025 </strong></p><p>This bill authorizes the National Taxpayer Advocate to appoint legal counsel within the Taxpayer Advocate Service (TAS) to report directly to the National Taxpayer Advocate. The bill also expands the authority of the National Taxpayer Advocate to take personnel actions with respect to local taxpayer advocates (located in each state) to include actions with respect to any employee of TAS.</p><p>Currently, pursuant to a Department of the Treasury order, all legal counsel whose duties include providing legal advice to any official in any office or bureau of Treasury are part of the Legal Division within Treasury and under the supervision of the General Counsel, with limited exceptions. TAS assists taxpayers in matters involving the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and is part of the IRS, within Treasury.&nbsp;</p> National Taxpayer Advocate Enhancement Act of 2025 Display Title 45 National Taxpayer Advocate Enhancement Act of 2025 2025-05-28T04:08:23Z Short Title(s) as Introduced 101 National Taxpayer Advocate Enhancement Act of 2025 2025-05-28T04:08:19Z Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced 6 A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to conform to the intent of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998, as set forth in the joint explanatory statement of the committee of conference accompanying Conference Report 105-599, that the National Taxpayer Advocate be able to hire and consult counsel as appropriate. 2025-05-28T04:03:47Z Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2025-05-08T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-119s1704is/xml/BILLS-119s1704is.xml 2025-05-08 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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.