Bill Details

HR.196 - 119th Congress

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This bill would cancel certain unspent funds that were set aside for the Internal Revenue Service under parts of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. It targets money that has been allocated or made available for IRS activities but has not yet been committed to specific projects or contracts. If the bill becomes law, the remaining unspent amounts covered by specific parts of section 10301 of Public Law 117-169 would be taken away and no longer available for IRS use. The measure is short and focused: it names particular subparts of the 2022 law and rescinds the unobligated balances of those provisions as of the date the law would take effect.

  • What it does: cancels (rescinds) unspent balances of amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to the IRS by paragraphs (1)(A)(ii), (1)(A)(iii), (1)(B), (2), (3), (4), and (5) of section 10301 of Public Law 117-169 (the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022).
  • Who it affects: applies only to unobligated balances — money that was allocated but not yet spent or formally committed — as of the date the bill becomes law.
  • Result and limits: removes the remaining authority to use those specified funds for IRS activities; the bill does not state where the canceled funds would go or provide replacement funding.
  • Form and status: a short, single-purpose bill introduced in the House and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means on January 3, 2025.

Official Summaries

Family and Small Business Taxpayer Protection Act

This bill rescinds unobligated funds that were provided by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) for enforcement activities related to the determination and collection of taxes, for operations support for taxpayer services and enforcement activities, and for a task force to research options for a free, direct electronic filing (e-filing) tax return system. 

The bill also rescinds unobligated funds that were provided by the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 for expenses of the

  • Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration,
  • Office of Tax Policy,
  • U.S. Tax Court, and
  • offices within the Department of the Treasury that provide oversight and support for the IRS.

 

Current Full Text

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 196 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 196

  To rescind certain balances made available to the Internal Revenue 
                                Service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 3, 2025

      Mr. Smith of Nebraska (for himself, Mr. Moran, Mr. Kelly of 
 Pennsylvania, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Hudson, Ms. Malliotakis, Mrs. Miller of 
West Virginia, Mr. Crenshaw, Mr. Buchanan, Mr. Meuser, Mr. Finstad, Ms. 
    Salazar, Mr. Grothman, Mrs. Cammack, Mr. Guest, Mr. Higgins of 
 Louisiana, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Reschenthaler, Mr. Griffith, 
  Mr. Estes, Mr. Bost, Mr. Moolenaar, Mr. Feenstra, Mr. Stauber, Mrs. 
 Harshbarger, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Langworthy, Mr. Fulcher, Mr. Cline, Ms. 
   Letlow, and Mr. Ellzey) introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To rescind certain balances made available to the Internal Revenue 
                                Service.

    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 ``Family and Small Business Taxpayer 
Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. RESCISSION OF CERTAIN BALANCES MADE AVAILABLE TO THE INTERNAL 
              REVENUE SERVICE.

    The unobligated balances of amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
available for activities of the Internal Revenue Service by paragraphs 
(1)(A)(ii), (1)(A)(iii), (1)(B), (2), (3), (4), and (5) of section 
10301 of Public Law 117-169 (commonly known as the ``Inflation 
Reduction Act of 2022'') as of the date of the enactment of this Act 
are rescinded.
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