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S 809 115th Congress Senate

Simpler Tax Filing Act of 2017

Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to study the feasibility of providing certain taxpayers with an optional, pre-prepared tax return, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 4, 2017 Introduced by: Shaheen, Jeanne Democratic · New Hampshire See on congress.gov
Taxation Business recordsCongressional oversightGovernment studies and investigationsTax administration and collection, taxpayers
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 4, 2017
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 Latest action April 4, 2017

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Simpler Tax Filing Act of 2017

This bill expresses the sense of Congress that the Internal Revenue Service should begin offering pre-prepared tax returns to as many taxpayers as possible by tax year 2022.

The Department of the Treasury must report to the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee on actions necessary to achieve the goal of offering pre-prepared tax returns to taxpayers by tax year 2022, with an analysis of the budgetary, administrative, and legislative barriers to achieving such goal, including the amount of appropriations that would be required.

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Warren, Elizabeth
Massachusetts · Apr 4, 2017
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 809: Simpler Tax Filing Act of 2017. 115th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-809/
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"S. 809: Simpler Tax Filing Act of 2017." 115th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/115-S-809/.
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