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HR 6238 114th Congress House

To direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for issuing identity protection personal identification numbers (IP PINs) to adopted children for purposes of tax administration.

Introduced: September 28, 2016 See on congress.gov
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Sep 28, 2016
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 Latest action September 28, 2016

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to establish a program under which the legal guardian of an adopted child may obtain an identity protection personal identification number (IP PIN) for the child to prevent an individual from improperly claiming tax benefits with respect to the child. The IRS may require a child's IP PIN to be included in a tax return as a condition of receiving any tax benefit with respect to the child.

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APA
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 6238: To direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for issuing identity protection personal identification numbers (IP PINs) to adopted children for purposes of tax administration.. 114th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6238/
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"H.R. 6238: To direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for issuing identity protection personal identification numbers (IP PINs) to adopted children for purposes of tax administration.." 114th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6238/.
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H.R. 6238, 114th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6238/.
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[H.R. 6238: To direct the Secretary of the Treasury to establish a program for issuing identity protection personal identification numbers (IP PINs) to adopted children for purposes of tax administration.](https://openamerica.io/bill/114-HR-6238/)
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