[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 25, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Pages S1926-S1927]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
SA 779. Mr. CORNYN (for himself and Mr. Roberts) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the
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concurrent resolution S. Con. Res. 11, setting forth the congressional
budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2016 and
setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2017
through 2025; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the appropriate place, insert the following:
SEC. ___. DEFICIT-NEUTRAL RESERVE FUND TO ENACT A TAXPAYER
BILL OF RIGHTS AND PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
PROTECTIONS FOR TAXPAYERS AGAINST ABUSES BY THE
INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE.
The Chairman of the Committee on the Budget of the Senate
may revise the allocations of a committee or committees,
aggregates, and other appropriate levels in this resolution
for one or more bills, joint resolutions, amendments,
amendments between the Houses, motions, or conference reports
relating to enacting a taxpayer bill of rights and providing
additional protections for taxpayers against abuses by the
Internal Revenue Service, which may include reducing the
compliance burden on taxpayers, strengthening the appeals
process for taxpayers, increasing penalties on agents of the
Internal Revenue Service who are found to have violated the
law, and improving taxpayer access to the judicial system, by
the amounts provided in such legislation for those purposes,
provided that such legislation would not increase the deficit
over either the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2020 or the period of the total of fiscal years 2016
through 2025.
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