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<item congress="117" measure-type="s" measure-number="1788" measure-id="id117s1788" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2021-05-24" update-date="2021-07-07">
<title>Restoring the IRS Act</title>
<summary summary-id="id117s1788v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2021-07-07">
<action-date>2021-05-24</action-date>
<action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
<summary-text><![CDATA[<p><strong>Restoring the IRS Act</strong></p> <p>This bill provides additional appropriations after FY2021 for the expenses of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for taxpayer services, enforcement activities, and business systems modernization. </p> <p>The bill establishes new reporting requirements for certain banks or other financial institutions and increases enforcement penalties for accuracy-related underpayments of tax up to a maximum of 40% of the underpayment for taxpayers with taxable incomes greater than $5 million.</p> <p>The IRS must report to Congress annually on plans to shift more of its auditing and enforcement assets toward high-income tax filers. The report must also include a tax gap analysis and a comprehensive analysis and description of whether there are any racial disparities in its enforcement activities or audits.</p> <p>The bill also applies false claims rules to claims, records, or statements made by taxpayers whose gross income equals or exceeds $10 million for the taxable year, and the damages sustained by the government due to such false claims exceed $1 million.</p>]]></summary-text>
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