A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide uniform standards for the use of electronic signatures for third-party disclosure authorizations.
Electronic Signature Standards Act of 2017
This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to require the Internal Revenue Service to publish guidance to establish uniform standards and procedures for the acceptance of practitioner signatures in digital or other electronic form for the purposes of: (1) disclosures of tax returns and return information to a designee of the taxpayer, and (2) any power of attorney executed by the taxpayer.
Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-574.
Received in the Senate.
Pursuant to the provisions of H. Res. 831, H.R. 5445 is laid on the table.
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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