A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft.

Bill: 115-s-156
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL]
Introduced: 2017-01-17
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Computer security and identity theft

Fraud offenses and financial crimes

Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-17
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-17
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill directs the Internal Revenue Service to implement security measures, including the use of security questions, in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated through electronic identity theft. </p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 156 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES January 17, 2017 Mr. Rubio introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft.

1. Implementation of security measures in electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud The Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary’s designee, shall implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process designed to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated through the use of electronic identity theft. Such measures shall include the use of security questions which allow for electronic matching of the answers to such questions to establish the identity of the taxpayer before the electronic filing of a tax return by such taxpayer.