To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to permit disclosure of tax return information to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and to the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.

Bill: 115-hr-1356
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Speier, Jackie [D-CA-14]
Introduced: 2017-03-02
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Congressional oversight

House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Latest action: action_date: 2017-03-02
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-03-02
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Internal Revenue Service to disclose certain tax return information to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence or the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, upon receiving a written request from the chairman of the relevant committee. Any return or return information that can be associated with, or otherwise identify, a particular taxpayer may only be furnished to a congressional committee when it is sitting in closed executive session, unless the taxpayer consents in writing to the disclosure. </p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1356 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 2, 2017 Ms. Speier (for herself, Ms. Shea-Porter , Mr. Welch , Ms. Kaptur , Mr. Jeffries , Mrs. Watson Coleman , Mr. Nadler , Mr. Norcross , Mr. Raskin , Mr. Thompson of California , Ms. Matsui , Mr. Castro of Texas , Mr. Himes , Ms. Maxine Waters of California , Mr. McNerney , Mr. Jones , Mr. Quigley , Ms. Castor of Florida , Mr. Nolan , Mr. Keating , Ms. Judy Chu of California , Mr. Evans , Ms. Lee , Mr. Deutch , Mr. Sires , Ms. Jackson Lee , Mr. Swalwell of California , Mr. Cohen , Mr. DeSaulnier , Mr. Carson of Indiana , Ms. Pingree , Mr. Hastings , Mr. Blumenauer , and Mr. Larsen of Washington ) 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 permit disclosure of tax return information to the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives and to the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.

1. Disclosure of tax return information to Intelligence Committees (a) In general Paragraph (1) of section 6103(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended— (1) by inserting the chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, the chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, before or the chairman of the Joint Committee on Taxation , and (2) by striking Committee on Ways and Means, Committee on Finance, and Joint Committee on Taxation in the heading thereof and inserting In general . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall apply to written requests made after the date of the enactment of this Act.