Prevent Targeting at the IRS Act

Bill: 114-s-941
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH]
Introduced: 2015-04-15
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Department of the Treasury

Employee performance

Government employee pay, benefits, personnel management

Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Latest action: action_date: 2015-04-15
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2015-04-15
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Prevent Targeting at the IRS Act</strong></p> <p>Amends the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 to expand existing grounds for termination of the employment of an Internal Revenue Service employee to include performing, delaying, or failing to perform (or threatening to perform, delay, or fail to perform) any official action (including any audit) with respect to a taxpayer for purpose of extracting personal gain or benefit or for a political purpose.</p>

tv_txt: II 114th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 941 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 15, 2015 Mr. Portman introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To provide for the termination of employment of employees of the Internal Revenue Service who take certain official actions for political purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Prevent Targeting at the IRS Act . 2. Termination of employment of Internal Revenue Service employees for taking official actions for political purposes (a) In general Paragraph (10) of section 1203(b) of the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 is amended to read as follows: (10) performing, delaying, or failing to perform (or threatening to perform, delay, or fail to perform) any official action (including any audit) with respect to a taxpayer for purpose of extracting personal gain or benefit or for a political purpose. . (b) Effective date The amendment made by this section shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.