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HR 3855 114th Congress House

Taxpayer Receipt Act

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide each individual taxpayer a receipt for an income tax payment whi… Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide each individual taxpayer a receipt for an income tax payment which itemizes the portion of the payment which is allocable to various Government spending categories.

Introduced: October 28, 2015 Introduced by: Quigley, Mike Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
Taxation Budget deficits and national debtTax administration and collection, taxpayers
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Oct 28, 2015
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 Latest action October 28, 2015

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Taxpayer Receipt Act

This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Department 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 for each legal U.S. resident.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3855: Taxpayer Receipt Act. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3855/
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"H.R. 3855: Taxpayer Receipt Act." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3855/.
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H.R. 3855, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-3855/.
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