To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process designed to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated through electronic identity theft, including the use of security questions that allow for electronic matching of the answers to establish the taxpayer's identity.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5670 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5670

To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures 
in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud 
         from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 18, 2014

  Mr. Yoho (for himself, Mr. Murphy of Florida, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. 
   Grayson, Mr. Collins of New York, Mr. Rice of South Carolina, Mr. 
    Jolly, Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois, Ms. Brown of Florida, Ms. 
Wasserman Schultz, Ms. Wilson of Florida, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. 
Stockman, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Diaz-Balart, Mr. Southerland, and Mr. 
  Bilirakis) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement security measures 
in the electronic tax return filing process to prevent tax refund fraud 
         from being perpetrated with electronic identity theft.

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

SECTION 1. IMPLEMENTATION OF SECURITY MEASURES IN ELECTRONIC TAX RETURN 
              FILING PROCESS TO PREVENT TAX REFUND FRAUD.

    The Secretary of the Treasury, or the Secretary's designee, shall 
implement security measures in the electronic tax return filing process 
designed to prevent tax refund fraud from being perpetrated through the 
use of electronic identity theft. Such measures shall include the use 
of security questions which allow for electronic matching of the 
answers to such questions to establish the identity of the taxpayer 
before the electronic filing of a tax return by such taxpayer.
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