Title: Military Taxpayer Assistance Act
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
Military Taxpayer Assistance Act
This bill requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to establish a special unit within the IRS office of Stakeholder Partnership, Education and Communication to be responsible for outreach, education, and assistance concerning the tax issues applicable to members of the uniformed services and organizations that provide tax assistance to them.
The IRS must: (1) staff the new unit with veterans, to the extent possible; and (2) ensure that ample funding is allocated to the unit to provide face-to-face training for the military volunteers providing income tax assistance in overseas locations.
The IRS must also: (1) establish and maintain a toll-free telephone number to answer tax questions and resolve tax account and compliance issues for members of the uniformed services and their families, and (2) ensure that information relating to military taxpayers is current on the IRS website.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5479 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5479

To direct the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to establish 
a special unit within the office of Stakeholder Partnership, Education 
and Communication to provide members of the uniformed services with tax 
                  assistance, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 11, 2018

  Mr. Walz (for himself and Mr. Kind) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To direct the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to establish 
a special unit within the office of Stakeholder Partnership, Education 
and Communication to provide members of the uniformed services with tax 
                  assistance, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Military Taxpayer Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. SPECIAL UNIT WITHIN THE OFFICE OF STAKEHOLDER PARTNERSHIP, 
              EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATION TO PROVIDE MEMBERS OF THE 
              UNIFORMED SERVICES WITH TAX ASSISTANCE.

    (a) Establishment.--The Commissioner of the Internal Revenue 
Service shall establish a special unit within the office of Stakeholder 
Partnership, Education and Communication in the Internal Revenue 
Service.
    (b) Responsibilities.--The unit established under subsection (a) 
shall be responsible for developing and conducting outreach, education, 
and assistance concerning the tax issues applicable to members of the 
uniformed services and the organizations that provide tax assistance to 
these taxpayers.
    (c) Staffing.--To the extent possible, the unit established under 
subsection (a) shall be staffed with veterans.
    (d) Funding for VITA Training Overseas.--The Commissioner shall 
ensure that ample funding is allocated to the unit established under 
subsection (a) to provide face-to-face training for the military 
volunteers providing income tax assistance in overseas locations.

SEC. 3. OTHER ASSISTANCE FOR MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES.

    (a) Toll-Free Telephone Line.--The Commissioner of the Internal 
Revenue Service shall establish and maintain a toll-free telephone 
number for members of the uniformed services and their families to 
answer tax law and filing questions and to resolve their tax account 
and compliance issues.
    (b) Website.--The Commissioner shall ensure that the information on 
the website of the Internal Revenue Service relating to military 
taxpayers is current.

SEC. 4. UNFORMED SERVICES.

    For purposes of this Act, the term ``uniformed services'' has the 
meaning given such term by section 101(a)(5) of title 10, United States 
Code.
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