S. 3660: BARCODE Efficiency Act
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S. 3660: BARCODE Efficiency Act
118th Congress · introduced 2024-01-25 · Taxation · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2024-01-25 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
BARCODE Efficiency Act
Plain summary
Barcode Automation for Revenue Collection to Organize Disbursement and Enhance Efficiency Act or the BARCODE Efficiency Act This bill requires federal tax returns that are prepared electronically, but printed and filed on paper, to bear a code that when scanned converts the data in such return to an electronic format. It also requires the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to use optical character recognition technology to transcribe returns and correspondence that are not prepared electronically and are printed on paper. The IRS may decline to use such technology if it determines that it is slower or less reliable than manual transcription.
Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate), quoted unchanged (nonpartisan). Read the source.
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Official text
BARCODE Efficiency Act
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Carper, Thomas R. [D-DE] · 1 cosponsors
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Todd Young (R-IN)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-118s3660.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/118/s>
Record fed-us-cong118-s3660 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong118 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong118