Advance enhanced taxpayer-information verification policies to help prevent tax-code fraud.

Enhanced verification of taxpayer information will help prevent fraud in our tax code while more effective trade enforcement will improve the integrity of our supply chains.

Smith said enhanced taxpayer information verification would help prevent fraud in the tax code.

Ways & Means Committee Advances Policies Benefitting American Patients, Parents, Taxpayers, & Critical Supply Chains - Ways and Means
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Stolen and hijacked EFINs are a common mechanism for refund fraud, and current statute does not require an EFIN to be verified as active and authorized before it is used to file. The bill prohibits the use of an unvalidated EFIN to electronically file any return or other document, requires validation to occur through the e-filing software itself, and directs the Treasury Department to establish an EFIN validation program to verify, in real time, the EFINs being used.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, the Ways and Means Committee under Chairman Jason Smith described H.R. 10334 as an EFIN real-time validation bill aimed at preventing refund fraud. This is concrete advancement, but not enactment.

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Ways & Means Committee Advances Policies Benefitting American Patients, Parents, Taxpayers, & Critical Supply Chains - Ways and Means
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H.R. 10334, the “EFIN Verification Act” was ordered favorably reported to the House of Representatives as amended by an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute, offered by Chairman Smith, by a roll call vote of 40 yeas and 0 nays.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official markup record shows the committee favorably reported the EFIN Verification Act as amended by Chairman Smith. This documents effort and committee advancement, but the bill had not become law in the cited record.

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Markup of H.R. 10357, H.R. 10334, H.R. 6130, H.R. 5439, H.R. 4093, H.R. 10346, and H.R. 10356
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