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S 437 112th Congress Senate Taxation Budget deficits and national debt Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Taxpayer Receipt Act

Introduced: March 2, 2011 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 2 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Mar 2, 2011
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Mar 2, 2011
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Taxpayer Receipt Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide every taxpayer who files an individual income tax return for any taxable year an itemized tax receipt showing: (1) the proportionate allocation of the taxpayer's payment in such year among major expenditure categories of the federal budget (e.g., social security, national defense, Medicare and other federal health programs, low-income assistance programs, unemployment benefits, net interest on the federal debt, and other federal programs); and (2) the amount of the federal debt at the end of the fiscal year and the amount of additional borrowing by the federal government in such fiscal year per each legal U.S. resident.

What's happening now March 2, 2011

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Committees of jurisdiction 1