A bill to require the Secretary of the Treasury to provide estimates of the use of taxpayer funds by the United States Government, and for other purposes.

Bill: 116-s-3834
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2020-05-21
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Government ethics and transparency, public corruption

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Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
Latest action: action_date: 2020-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2020-05-21
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires the Department of the Treasury to provide to each taxpayer a one-page estimate of how such taxpayer's money was spent by the government during the immediately preceding calendar year. </p>

tv_txt: II 116th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3834 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 21, 2020 Mr. Braun 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 provide estimates of the use of taxpayer funds by the United States Government, and for other purposes.

1. Use of taxpayer funds The Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary’s delegate, shall provide, to each individual filing a Federal income tax return for a calendar year, a one-page estimate of how the taxpayer’s money was spent by the Government during the immediately preceding calendar year.