S 3660
118th Congress
Senate
Taxation
Computers and information technology
Digital media
Government information and archives
Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
BARCODE Efficiency Act
Introduced: January 25, 2024
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Jan 25, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Jan 25, 2024
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
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
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1