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S. 156Senate115th Congress (2017-2019)In Committee

A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft.

Sponsored by Marco RubioSen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)
Introduced January 17, 2017

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This bill directs the Treasury Department to put new safeguards into the online tax‑return filing process to stop refund fraud that results from electronic identity theft. The added measures would apply to anyone filing a tax return electronically, helping protect taxpayers and the tax system from fraudulent refunds.

Key Provisions

  • The Treasury Secretary (or a designee) must add security steps to the electronic tax‑return filing system.
  • Those steps must include security questions whose answers are electronically checked to verify a taxpayer’s identity before a return can be filed.

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Finance Committee

January 17, 2017

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Introduced in Senate

January 17, 2017

SenateIntro Referral

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Finance Committee

January 17, 2017

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Introduced in SenateIssued January 17, 2017

II

115th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 156

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 17, 2017

Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

A BILL

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft.

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Implementation of security measures in electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud

The Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary’s designee, shall implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process designed to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated through the use of electronic identity theft. Such measures shall include the use of security questions which allow for electronic matching of the answers to such questions to establish the identity of the taxpayer before the electronic filing of a tax return by such taxpayer.