[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1557 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1557

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of 
  the Treasury to disclose taxpayer identity information through mass 
       communications to notify persons entitled to tax refunds.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 2, 2003

Mr. Doggett (for himself, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Ms. DeLauro, Mr. Gonzalez, 
 Ms. Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas, Mrs. Jones of Ohio, Mr. Lewis of 
     Georgia, Mrs. Maloney, Mr. Matsui, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Neal of 
 Massachusetts, Mr. Pomeroy, Mr. Rangel, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Sandlin, Ms. 
 Schakowsky, Mr. Sherman, Ms. Slaughter, and Mr. Stark) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of 
  the Treasury to disclose taxpayer identity information through mass 
       communications to notify persons entitled to tax refunds.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``IRS Refund Accessibility Act of 
2003''.

SEC. 2. DISCLOSURE OF TAXPAYER IDENTITY FOR TAX REFUND PURPOSES.

    Paragraph (1) of section 6103(m) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 (relating to disclosure of taxpayer identity information for tax 
refunds) is amended by inserting ``, and through any other means of 
mass communication,'' after ``media''.
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