S 3440
114th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Administrative law and regulatory procedures
Department of the Treasury
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2016
Introduced: September 28, 2016
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Became law
Sep 28, 2016
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Sep 28, 2016
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2016
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Internal Revenue Service to publish guidance to establish uniform standards and procedures for the acceptance of signatures in digital or other electronic form for the purposes of: (1) disclosures of tax returns and return information to a designee of the taxpayer, and (2) any power of attorney executed by the taxpayer.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1