US Congress House Bill 4372 (Prior Session Legislation)

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April 17 2012 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Pending: House Ways And Means Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) require individuals who claim a tax credit for qualified tuition and related expenses under the Hope Scholarship tax credit or the Lifetime Learning tax credit to include their social security numbers on their tax returns, (2) require the educational institutions of such individuals to provide their employer identification numbers, and (3) make permanent the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to disclose tax return information relating to inmates in federal or state prisons whom the Secretary has determined may have filed or facilitated the filing of a false tax return.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to require the social security number of the student and the employer identification number of the educational institution for purposes of education tax credits, to permanently allow disclosure of return information to prison officials to prevent prisoners from filing false and fraudulent tax returns, and for other purposes.

Rep Black, Diane	Rep Blackburn, Marsha	Rep Duncan, John J., Jr.	Rep Ellmers, Renee L.
Rep Fleischmann, Charles J. "Chuck"	Rep Miller, Jeff	Rep Myrick, Sue Wilkins	Rep Reed, Tom
Rep Roe, David P.	Rep Rokita, Todd	Rep Schock, Aaron	Rep Westmoreland, Lynn A.

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-04-17	House	Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d112:HN04372:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr4372ih/pdf/BILLS-112hr4372ih.pdf