To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold social security numbers on Form 990 from public disclosure.

Bill: 114-hr-4064
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Cicilline, David N. [D-RI-1]
Introduced: 2015-11-18
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government information and archives

Right of privacy

Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Latest action: action_date: 2015-11-18
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-11-18
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to authorize the Internal Revenue Service to withhold from public inspection any social security account number included on the information return of a tax-exempt organization (i.e., Form 990). </p>

tv_txt: I 114th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 4064 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES November 18, 2015 Mr. Cicilline (for himself and Mr. Doggett ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the Secretary of the Treasury to withhold social security numbers on Form 990 from public disclosure.

1. Authority to withhold social security account numbers on form 990 from public disclosure (a) Inspection of annual returns Section 6104(b) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following: The Secretary may withhold from public inspection any social security account number included in information required to be made available under this subsection. . (b) Public inspection of certain annual returns, reports, applications for exemption, and notices of status Section 6104(d)(3)(B) of such Code is amended by adding at the end the following: or disclosure of any social security account number included in information required to be made available under this subsection. . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply with respect to disclosures made after the date of the enactment of this Act.