S 937
113th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Administrative remedies
Congressional oversight
Department of the Treasury
Government ethics and transparency, public corruption
Government studies and investigations
Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Tax-exempt organizations
Protect Against Ideology-Based Targeting Act
Introduced: May 14, 2013
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Became law
May 14, 2013
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
May 14, 2013
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Protect Against Ideology-Based Targeting Act - Prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in reviewing applications for tax-exempt status, from developing or using any methodology that applies disproportionate scrutiny to any applicant for tax-exempt status based on the ideology expressed in the name or purpose of the applicant's organization. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the duties of the Inspector General for Tax Administration of the Department of the Treasury to require reporting to Congress on the number of complaints that allege disproportionate scrutiny of taxpayers who apply for tax-exempt status.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
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