To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a program to prevent the fraudulent use of taxpayer identification numbers of residents of United States territories and possessions to be used to obtain a credit or refund on tax returns filed with the United States.

Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a program to prevent the fraudulent use of taxpayer identification numbers of residents of U.S. territories and possessions to obtain federal tax refunds or credits. Requires the program to include a comparison of all income tax returns filed with the United States and any U.S. territory or possession under the same taxpayer identification number.

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[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6583 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6583

  To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a program to 
   prevent the fraudulent use of taxpayer identification numbers of 
 residents of United States territories and possessions to be used to 
 obtain a credit or refund on tax returns filed with the United States.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 2, 2012

   Mr. Dent introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To require the Secretary of the Treasury to implement a program to 
   prevent the fraudulent use of taxpayer identification numbers of 
 residents of United States territories and possessions to be used to 
 obtain a credit or refund on tax returns filed with the United States.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PROGRAM TO PREVENT FRAUDULENT USE OF TAXPAYER IDENTIFICATION 
              NUMBERS OF RESIDENTS OF TERRITORIES AND POSSESSIONS.

    The Secretary of the Treasury shall, in coordination with the 
territories and possessions of the United States, implement a program 
to prevent the fraudulent use of taxpayer identification numbers of 
residents of such territories and possessions to obtain a refund or 
credit against any tax imposed by the Internal Revenue Code of 1986. 
Such program shall include a comparison of all income tax returns filed 
with the United States and any territory or possession of the United 
States, under the same taxpayer identification number.
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