Track bills, resolutions, and amendments moving through Congress
Pre-Payment Fraud Prevention and Treasury Data Access Act
The bill strengthens federal screening, verification, and reporting to detect and recover improper payments and improve program integrity, but it increases data sharing, privacy risks, administrative costs, and the potential for payment delays and compliance burdens—especially for small recipients and nonfederal partners.
Taxpayer Due Process Enhancement Act
The bill strengthens taxpayer procedural protections and clarifies Tax Court review rights during collection disputes, but it narrows some statute-of-limitations protections and may increase risks of forfeiture, administrative complexity, and litigation costs for taxpayers and the IRS.
Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act
The bill would make IRS service far more transparent and convenient—real‑time wait data, status updates, callbacks, online records, and multi‑account access—while imposing significant IT and operational costs and raising substantial privacy, security, and implementation‑risk tradeoffs that must be managed to avoid increased fraud or service disruption.
IRS Whistleblower Program Improvement Act
The bill strengthens whistleblower protections and clarifies certain tax rules—likely increasing reporting, recoveries, and fairness for claimants—while raising litigation and administrative burdens and generating higher federal payouts and some risks to transparency and enforcement effectiveness.
BARCODE Efficiency Act
The bill speeds and automates processing of printed, electronically prepared tax returns—improving efficiency and reducing some errors—while shifting costs and compliance burdens onto paper filers and risking OCR-related misprocessing for low-quality submissions.
Taxpayer Notification and Privacy Act
The bill strengthens taxpayer privacy and reduces unnecessary third‑party contacts by requiring clearer notices and a minimum response period, but it may slow IRS processing, leaves an exception that still permits sudden third‑party requests, and delays implementation for 12 months.
Clergy Act
The bill gives eligible religious workers a clear, one‑time path to join Social Security and access retirement/survivor benefits, but doing so can trigger substantial immediate and ongoing tax costs, administrative burdens, and potential timing confusion for benefit payments.
To modernize Federal firearms laws to account for advancements in technology and less-than-lethal weapons, and for other purposes.
The bill expands market access and regulatory clarity for less-than-lethal projectile devices—lowering costs and easing law-enforcement use—but reduces federal revenue and creates safety, oversight, and civil-liberties risks by loosening firearms-related safeguards.
Disaster Related Extension of Deadlines Act
The bill protects disaster-affected taxpayers by extending time to claim refunds/credits and reducing improper collections, at the cost of greater IRS administrative burden and slower final resolution of some tax accounts.
Tax Court Improvement Act
The bill strengthens Tax Court procedural tools, fairness standards, and protections for late filings—speeding and legitimizing adjudications—while raising compliance costs, privacy risks, and procedural/due‑process and delay concerns for taxpayers, third parties, and court administration.
Fair and Accountable IRS Reviews Act
Requiring supervisors to personally sign off on IRS penalty determinations aims to reduce wrongful penalties and improve accountability, but it may slow processing, increase agency workload and costs, and could be ineffective if approvals are routinely rubber‑stamped.
Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act
The bill strengthens notice clarity and access for taxpayers to understand and contest IRS adjustments, but does so at the cost of higher administrative and mailing burdens that could slow processing and increase program costs.
Filing Relief for Natural Disasters Act
The bill gives disaster-affected taxpayers broader, easier-to-access tax-deadline relief to aid recovery, at the cost of possible refund delays, greater IRS administrative burden, and inconsistent treatment across States.
To provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.
This package delivers sizable tax relief, defense/industrial and targeted domestic investments while tightening immigration and benefit rules and expanding fossil fuel development — producing near‑term financial and program gains for many Americans at the cost of higher federal spending, greater compliance burdens, and increased risks to climate, coverage, and immigrant access.
National Taxpayer Advocate Enhancement Act of 2025
The bill centralizes and clarifies legal authority for in‑office counsel under the National Taxpayer Advocate—potentially improving independent taxpayer representation—while risking reduced legal support for local advocate offices and creating retroactive administrative or legal complexity.
Recovery of Stolen Checks Act
The bill accelerates and secures replacement tax refunds by prioritizing direct deposit—improving speed, fraud risk, and IRS efficiency—at the cost of potentially excluding unbanked taxpayers and imposing near-term regulatory burdens and verification risks on the IRS.
Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Act
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the taxation of certain residents of Taiwan with income from sources within the United States.
The bill would lower withholding and clarify tax rules for Taiwan-linked income—reducing cross-border tax friction and increasing transparency—but does so at the cost of reduced U.S. revenue, added compliance and enforcement burdens, and potential implementation delays.
Precious Metals Parity Act
The bill lets funds count certain precious-metals income as qualifying RIC income to preserve pass-through tax treatment and lower taxes for affected investors, at the cost of modestly reduced corporate tax revenue and greater retail exposure to volatile metal investments.
Women's Retirement Protection Act
The bill strengthens legal spousal protections and funds targeted grant programs and consumer resources to improve retirement security for women and retirees, but it increases federal spending and creates new compliance burdens, potential delays in access to funds, and risks that grants and mandates may favor larger organizations or fail to deliver measurable outcomes.
End Taxpayer Funding of Gender Experimentation Act of 2025
The bill reduces federal spending on gender‑affirming care and aligns Exchange offerings with that restriction, saving some federal dollars and preserving employer flexibility to offer unsubsidized benefits, but it substantially reduces subsidized access to transition-related care, raises costs for affected individuals and insurers, shifts costs to states and private payers, and creates equity and administrative burdens.
Stop Predatory Investing Act
The bill narrows tax benefits for many single-family rental owners to reduce tax avoidance and protect certain affordable-housing channels, but it raises taxes and compliance costs for landlords—risks that may be passed to renters and could reduce small-scale rental investment.
Rent Relief Act of 2025
The bill provides targeted, refundable rental relief (including utilities and monthly advance payments) to lower-income renters and extra support in high-cost areas, but it increases federal spending, creates repayment/reconciliation risks for advance payments, excludes the very highest rent amounts, and adds administrative complexity that may delay or unevenly distribute benefits.
FAIR PREP Act of 2025
The bill preserves taxpayer choice and limits federal spending/contracting for government tax‑preparation services, but at the cost of forgoing a potentially simpler, lower‑cost government filing option and slowing modernization that could benefit many filers.
Saving Privacy Act
The bill significantly strengthens financial privacy and individual remedies while curtailing centralized data collection and some regulatory powers — a trade-off that improves privacy and consumer choice but raises costs for banks, increases litigation risk, and may hinder law enforcement, market surveillance, and certain policy tools such as a Fed retail CBDC.
Book Minimum Tax Repeal Act
The bill reduces taxes and compliance complexity for corporations and may increase usable tax credits, but it lowers federal revenue and creates transitional uncertainty that could push costs onto households or require future fiscal offsets.
Amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to impose an excise tax on the failure of certain hedge funds owning excess single-family residences to dispose of such residences, and for other purposes.
The bill targets tax benefits for certain single-family residence owners to raise revenue and discourage speculative holding, but it does so by removing mortgage interest/depreciation benefits and adding an excise tax and compliance complexity that raises taxes and cash-flow pressures for the affected homeowners.
Social Security Expansion Act
The bill raises benefits and provides more elderly-targeted inflation adjustments and student protections—boosting income for many retirees, low‑earners, and students—while shifting costs onto higher earners and investment income and imposing administrative and solvency pressures that could lead to higher taxes or future benefit changes.
Tax Administration Simplification Act
The bill gives many taxpayers—especially S-corporation owners and estimated taxpayers—more timing flexibility and clearer electronic-filing protections, at the cost of increased IRS implementation burdens, short-term uncertainty for some filers, and transition compliance and system-update costs.
Clergy Act
The bill gives certain clergy a clear, time-bound path to opt into Social Security and obtain retirement and survivors' benefits, but creates risks of large retroactive tax bills, permanent loss of exemption flexibility, and modest added fiscal and administrative costs.
