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S. 1051 · 118th Congress · Taxation

Protect Taxpayers’ Privacy Act

Died in committee221 words Introduced Mar 29, 2023 · Latest action Mar 29, 2023

How far it has goneStopped at 2 of 6 · Died in committee
  1. IntroducedMar 29, 2023 Done
  2. CommitteeDied Jan 3, 2025 Stopped here
  3. Senate floorNot yet Not reached yet
  4. House floorNot yet Not reached yet
  5. Chambers agreeNot yet Not reached yet
  6. PresidentNot yet Not reached yet

What it does

This bill increases to $250,000 the criminal penalty for unauthorized disclosures of taxpayer information by federal employees and tax return preparers. It also lowers the evidentiary requirements for removal of employees from federal service who disclose tax return information without authorization.

Congressional Research Service · summary of “Introduced in Senate” version · Mar 29, 2023

Who lobbies on it

1 organization · 8 filings · Q1 2023–Q4 2024

One square per quarter since introduction, oldest left. Filled = named it that quarter.

  1. National Treasury Employees Union 8 of 8 quarters
    “H. Res. 890, Amending the Rules of the House of Representatives to establish the Committee on the Elimination of Nonessential Federal Programs. H. Res. 1329, Acknowledging and apologizing for the mistreatment of, and discrimination against, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals who served the United…”

    Q4 2024 filing · $1.2M lobbying spend in 2024, all issues

Organizations that named S. 1051 in a quarterly lobbying report. Covers organizations with a PAC on file; reports from organizations without one aren’t loaded yet. Spend is the organization’s total across all issues: reports don’t split spending by bill. Source: Senate lobbying disclosures (LD-2) from lda.gov; quotes are word for word from the “specific lobbying issues” field.

Actions

2 actions · newest first
  1. Mar 29, 2023Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
  2. Mar 29, 2023Introduced in Senate