Taxpayer Identity Protection Act of 2014

Taxpayer Identity Protection Act of 2014 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the statement reporting wages and other tax information to show an identifying number for the employee (currently, requires the employee's social security number).

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4910 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4910

 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the authority of 
   the Internal Revenue Service to require truncated social security 
              numbers on Form W-2 wage and tax statements.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 19, 2014

  Mr. McDermott (for himself, Mr. Levin, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Danny K. 
    Davis of Illinois, Ms. Norton, Mr. Langevin, Ms. Schwartz, Ms. 
 Wasserman Schultz, Mr. Becerra, Mr. Lewis, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. 
 Reed, Mr. Paulsen, Mr. Griffin of Arkansas, Mr. Gerlach, Ms. Linda T. 
 Sanchez of California, Mr. Nugent, Mr. Tiberi, Mr. Enyart, Mr. Larson 
of Connecticut, and Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the authority of 
   the Internal Revenue Service to require truncated social security 
              numbers on Form W-2 wage and tax statements.

    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 ``Taxpayer Identity Protection Act of 
2014''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF IRS AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE TRUNCATED SOCIAL SECURITY 
              NUMBERS ON FORM W-2.

    (a) In General.--Paragraph (2) of section 6051(a) of the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``his social security 
account number'' and inserting ``an identifying number for the 
employee''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by this section shall take 
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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