Federal Tax Amnesty and Improved Tax Compliance Act of 1986

Summary

Federal Tax Amnesty and Improved Tax Compliance Act of 1986 - Title I: Amnesty From Criminal and Civil Penalties - Provides for a one-time amnesty from criminal and civil tax penalties for a taxpayer who: (1) files a written statement with specified information concerning any underpayment of tax; and (2) pays the amount of such underpayment when filing the statement, together with the interest due thereon. Permits installment payments in certain cases. Provides that where the taxpayer fails to pay any installment payment when due, the balance in the account shall be due immediately. Defines the amnesty period as the six-month period which ends on September 30, 1987. Disallows such amnesty where: (1) there has been an underpayment assessed and a notice of deficiency with respect to the underpayment was mailed or the taxpayer was put on notice of a substantive question of the taxpayer's tax liability; (2) there was fraud in seeking amnesty; or (3) a criminal investigation is pending. Provides that the amnesty provisions apply only to underpayments of Federal tax for taxable periods ending before January 1, 1985. Authorizes appropriations to inform the general public about the operation of the amnesty provisions. Title II: Compliance Provisions - Subtitle A: Increase in Compliance Personnel - Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in addition to other appropriated funds, there be appropriated to the Secretary of the Treasury, for revenue enforcement and compliance programs, such an amount as may be cost effective of the revenue attributable to the amnesty program. Authorizes appropriations for an additional 2,500 compliance personnel for the Internal Revenue Service through FY 1989. Subtitle B: Denial of Federal Contracts, Licenses, etc., to Taxpayers with Tax Delinquent Accounts - Prohibits the award of any Federal contract to any person who has a tax delinquent account. Provides that no Federal business license may be issued with respect to any person who has a tax delinquent account. Provides an exception for public health business licenses or business licenses specified in regulations issued by the Secretary of the Treasury. Subtitle C: Inflation Adjustment of Criminal and Civil Monetary Penalties - Provides for an annual cost-of-living adjustment in the criminal and civil tax monetary penalties beginning in 1987. Specifies the method for calculating the annual adjustment. Subtitle D: Revision of Certain Penalties - Provides penalties for: (1) failure to file certain information returns; (2) failure to furnish certain payee statements; and (3) failure to include certain information on certain returns and statements. Establishes certain waiver provisions, definitions, and special rules relating to the filing of information returns and statements. Increases the penalty for failure to pay tax in certain cases from 0.5 percent per month to one percent per month. Modifies the provisions relating to the tax penalty in instances involving negligence and fraud.

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Timeline

1. 25 February 1986

   Introduced

   Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

   Source: IntroReferral

2. 25 February 1986

   Introduced

   Introduced in Senate

   Source: IntroReferral

3. 27 February 1986

   Committee

   Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB, Department of the Treasury.

   Source: Committee

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• Introduced in Senate

  summary · EN · 25 February 1986

  Open at official source

Sponsors

• Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Boschwitz, Rudy [R-MN] · R · Sponsor
• Sen. Moynihan, Daniel Patrick [D-NY] · D · Sponsor
• Sen. Baucus, Max [D-MT] · D · Cosponsor
• Sen. Andrews, Mark [R-ND] · R · Cosponsor
• Sen. Biden, Joseph R., Jr. [D-DE] · D · Cosponsor
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