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BARCODE Efficiency Act

Introduced: January 25, 2024 See on congress.gov
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Barcode Automation for Revenue Collection to Organize Disbursement and Enhance Efficiency Act or the BARCODE Efficiency Act

This bill requires federal tax returns that are prepared electronically, but printed and filed on paper, to bear a code that when scanned converts the data in such return to an electronic format. It also requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to use optical character recognition technology to transcribe returns and correspondence that are not prepared electronically and are printed on paper.

The IRS may decline to use such technology if it determines that it is slower or less reliable than manual transcription.

What's happening now January 25, 2024

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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Young, Todd
Indiana · Jan 25, 2024
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3660: BARCODE Efficiency Act. 118th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-3660/
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"S. 3660: BARCODE Efficiency Act." 118th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-3660/.
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S. 3660, 118th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/118-S-3660/.
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