Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Resolution

Bill: 113-hres-635
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36]
Introduced: 2014-06-20
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional-executive branch relations

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Latest action: action_date: 2014-06-20
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-06-20
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that taxpayers shall be given the benefit of the doubt with regard to their justification for not producing critical documentation until the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) produces all documentation demanded by the House or produces acceptable justification for not doing so.</p>

tv_txt: IV 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. RES. 635 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 20, 2014 Mr. Stockman submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means RESOLUTION Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) must allow taxpayers the same lame excuses for missing documentation that the IRS itself is currently proffering.

The resolution may be cited as the Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Resolution . Whereas, the IRS claims that convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction is sufficient justification not to produce specific, critical documentation; and Whereas, fairness and Due Process demand that the American taxpayer be granted no less latitude than we afford the bureaucrats employed presently at the IRS: Now, therefore, be it

That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that unless and until the Internal Revenue Service produces all documentation demanded by subpoena or otherwise by the House of Representatives, or produces an excuse that passes the red face test, All taxpayers shall be given the benefit of the doubt when not producing critical documentation, so long as the taxpayer’s excuse therefore falls into one of the following categories: (1) The dog ate my tax receipts (2) Convenient, unexplained, miscellaneous computer malfunction (3) Traded documents for five terrorists (4) Burned for warmth while lost in the Yukon (5) Left on table in Hillary’s Book Room (6) Received water damage in the trunk of Ted Kennedy’s car (7) Forgot in gun case sold to Mexican drug lords (8) Forced to recycle by municipal Green Czar (9) Was short on toilet paper while camping (10) At this point, what difference does it make? In any case, IRS can see the NSA for a good, high quality copy.