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    <item congress="118" measure-type="s" measure-number="898" measure-id="id118s898" originChamber="SENATE" orig-publish-date="2023-03-21" update-date="2023-04-10">
        <title>Merchant Category Code Neutrality Act</title>
        <summary summary-id="id118s898v00" currentChamber="SENATE" update-date="2023-04-10">
            <action-date>2023-03-21</action-date>
            <action-desc>Introduced in Senate</action-desc>
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     <p> <strong>Merchant Category Code Neutrality Act </strong></p> <p>This bill prohibits the Internal Revenue Service from auditing a taxpayer based primarily on the Merchant Category Codes, or other similar codes, used to classify the goods or services provided by the taxpayer's business. The bill defines <em>Merchant Category Code</em> to mean classification codes assigned by payment card organizations to merchants or payees that accept their payment cards to classify the goods or services provided or furnished by a merchant or payee.</p>
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