118th Congress · SENATE BILLBILL

S. 3660BARCODE Efficiency Act

A bill to require electronically prepared tax returns to include scannable code when submitted on paper, and to require the use of optical character recognition technology for paper documents received by the Internal Revenue Service.

Taxation
Introduced Jan 25, 2024
Last action Jan 25, 2024
Pipeline · Bill → Law
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Introduced
Jan 25, 2024
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Referred
Jan 25, 2024
Finance
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Committee
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Senate
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House floor
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Resolve Changes
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Signed
SummaryCRS Summary

This bill requires federal tax returns that are prepared electronically, but printed and filed on paper, to bear a code that when scanned converts the data in such return to an electronic format. It also requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to use optical character recognition technology to transcribe returns and correspondence that are not prepared electronically and are printed on paper. The IRS may decline to use such technology if it determines that it is slower or less reliable than manual transcription.

Provisions · 2 sectionsIntroduced in Senate
Timeline · 2 actions
Jan 25, 2024
Introduced in Senate
Jan 25, 2024
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.