STOP IRS Act

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

Stop Targeting Our Politics IRS Act or the STOP IRS Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 to expand existing grounds for termination of the employment of an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employee to include performing, delaying, or failing to perform (or threatening to perform, delay, or fail to perform) any official action (including any audit) with respect to a taxpayer for purpose of extracting personal gain or benefit or for a political purpose.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2565 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2565

   To provide for the termination of employment of employees of the 
    Internal Revenue Service who take certain official actions for 
                          political purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 27, 2013

  Mr. Renacci (for himself, Mr. Meehan, Mr. Stivers, Mr. Chabot, Mr. 
Gibbs, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Mr. Huizenga of 
  Michigan, Mr. Joyce, Mr. Massie, Mr. Boustany, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Sam 
Johnson of Texas, Mr. Wilson of South Carolina, Mr. Webster of Florida, 
Mr. Young of Indiana, Mr. Miller of Florida, Mr. Wenstrup, Mr. Delaney, 
  Mr. Carney, Mr. Marchant, Mr. Roskam, Mrs. Black, Mr. Labrador, Mr. 
 Jordan, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Rothfus, Mr. Gerlach, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Marino, 
 and Mr. Griffin of Arkansas) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide for the termination of employment of employees of the 
    Internal Revenue Service who take certain official actions for 
                          political purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Stop Targeting Our Politics IRS 
Act'' or as the ``STOP IRS Act''.

SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT OF INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE EMPLOYEES 
              FOR TAKING OFFICIAL ACTIONS FOR POLITICAL PURPOSES.

    Paragraph (10) of section 1203(b) of the Internal Revenue Service 
Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 is amended to read as follows:
            ``(10) performing, delaying, or failing to perform (or 
        threatening to perform, delay, or fail to perform) any official 
        action (including any audit) with respect to a taxpayer for 
        purpose of extracting personal gain or benefit or for a 
        political purpose.''.
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