A bill to protect American small businesses, gig workers, and freelancers by repealing the burdensome American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 transactions reporting threshold.

Bill: 117-s-948
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Scott, Rick [R-FL]
Introduced: 2021-03-24
Policy area: Taxation
Subjects: Small business

Tax administration and collection, taxpayers

Wages and earnings
Latest action: action_date: 2021-03-24
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-03-24
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill modifies requirements for third party settlement organizations to eliminate their reporting requirement with respect to the transactions of their participating payees unless they have earned more than $20,000 on more than 200 separate transactions in an applicable tax period. A <em>third party settlement organization</em> is the central organization that has the contractual obligation to make payments to participating payees (generally, a merchant or business) in a third party payment network. </p> <p>This reverses a provision in the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 that lowered the reporting threshold to $600 with no minimum on the number of transactions.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 948 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 24, 2021 Mr. Scott of Florida introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To protect American small businesses, gig workers, and freelancers by repealing the burdensome American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 transactions reporting threshold.

1. Repeal of modifications of exceptions for reporting of third party network transactions (a) In general Section 6050W(e) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended to read as follows: (e) Exception for de minimis payments by third party settlement organizations A third party settlement organization shall be required to report any information under subsection (a) with respect to third party network transactions of any participating payee only if— (1) the amount which would otherwise be reported under subsection (a)(2) with respect to such transactions exceeds $20,000, and (2) the aggregate number of such transactions exceeds 200. . (b) Effective date The amendment made by this section shall apply to returns for calendar years beginning after December 31, 2021.