S 4817 · 117th Congress 2021–2023, ended

A bill to prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds.

Fact sheet

Latest action · Sep 12, 2022 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedSep 12, 2022
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

This bill prohibits the use of additional funds appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000.

Cosponsors 19

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 12, 2022 to Sep 27, 2022, with 13 there on the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
R-NEBen SasseOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-LABill CassidyOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-IAChuck GrassleyOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-OKJames LankfordOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-WYJohn BarrassoOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-TXJohn CornynOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-SDJohn ThuneOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-PAPatrick J. ToomeyOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-NCRichard BurrOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-OHRob PortmanOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-MTSteve DainesOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-SCTim ScottOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-INTodd YoungOriginalSep 12, 2022
R-WVShelley Moore CapitoSep 13, 2022
R-WYCynthia M. LummisSep 14, 2022

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Sep 12, 2022Introduced in Senate
  2. Sep 12, 2022Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Related bills 1

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.

Text 1

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  1. Sep 12, 2022Introduced in Senate

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