Title: RETURN Act
Policy area: Taxation

Summary:
Require Employees To Uniformly Return Now Act or the RETURN Act
This bill prohibits Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employees from teleworking during the period beginning five business days after the enactment of this bill and ending on the date on which the IRS certifies that the processing backlog for 2020 income tax returns has been eliminated.
The Department of the Treasury may not obligate additional funds for the IRS until the date on which the IRS certifies the backlog has been eliminated.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8742 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8742

 To ensure that employees of the Internal Revenue Service are brought 
 back to their offices until the backlog of 2020 tax returns has been 
                              eliminated.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 23, 2022

   Mr. Meuser (for himself, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Donalds, and Mr. 
  Garbarino) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To ensure that employees of the Internal Revenue Service are brought 
 back to their offices until the backlog of 2020 tax returns has been 
                              eliminated.

    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 ``Require Employees To Uniformly 
Return Now Act'' or the ``RETURN Act''.

SEC. 2. BRINGING IRS EMPLOYEES BACK TO THE OFFICE.

    (a) In General.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the 
case of an applicable employee, such employee shall not be authorized 
to telework during the period--
            (1) beginning on the date that is 5 business days after the 
        date of enactment of this Act, and
            (2) ending on the date on which the Commissioner of 
        Internal Revenue certifies that the processing backlog with 
        respect to income tax returns for taxable year 2020 has been 
        eliminated.
    (b) Definitions.--In this section--
            (1) Applicable employee.--The term ``applicable employee'' 
        means an employee of the Internal Revenue Service who, as of 
        the date of enactment of this Act, is authorized to telework, 
        on a temporary or permanent basis, pursuant to a policy 
        established by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue in response 
        to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
            (2) Telework.--The term ``telework'' has the same meaning 
        given such term under section 6501(3) of title 5, United States 
        Code.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON OBLIGATION OF FUNDS UNTIL IRS BACKLOG IS 
              ELIMINATED.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the 
Treasury (or the Secretary's delegate) may not obligate the funds 
appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service under section 10301 of the 
Inflation Reduction Act (Public Law 117-169) until the date described 
in section 2(a)(2).
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