H.R. 9143: To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds.
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H.R. 9143: To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds.
117th Congress · introduced 2022-10-07 · Taxation · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2022-10-07 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8] · what a sponsor is
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Official title
To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds.
Plain summary
This bill prohibits the use of additional funds appropriated to the Internal Revenue Service under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000.
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Official text
To prevent the use of additional Internal Revenue Service funds from being used for audits of taxpayers with taxable incomes below $400,000 in order to protect low- and middle-income earning American taxpayers from an onslaught of audits from an army of new Internal Revenue Service auditors funded by an unprecedented, nearly $80,000,000,000, infusion of new funds.
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
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Sponsor: Rep. Brady, Kevin [R-TX-8] · 16 cosponsors
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Adrian Smith (R-NE), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Mike Kelly (R-PA), Jason Smith (R-MO), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Darin LaHood (R-IL), Jodey C. Arrington (R-TX), Ron Estes (R-KS), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Kevin Hern (R-OK), Carol D. Miller (R-WV), Gregory F. Murphy (R-NC), David Kustoff (R-TN)
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- Appropriation
- Money a legislature sets aside by law for a specific purpose. Government agencies may spend public money only as it has been appropriated.
- Bill
- A proposed law. It becomes law only if it passes the legislature and is signed by the president or governor (or a veto is overridden).
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-117hr9143.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/117/hr>
Record fed-us-cong117-hr9143 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong117 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong117