Brady’s bill also seeks to modernize the IRS by improving the agency’s customer service and information technology. The legislation would require the IRS to update its cybersecurity and information technology, expand the use of electronic tax-filing systems and allow the IRS to directly accept credit and debit card tax payments. It would also codify the IRS’s public-private partnership to fight identity theft, rename the IRS commissioner the IRS administrator and require the administrator to submit a reorganization plan to Congress by Sept. 30, 2020.
The IRS provisions, some of which have cleared the House before, are needed to refocus the IRS to make it a 'taxpayer first' agency, Brady has said.
Brady’s ability to deliver the bill to President Trump’s desk before Congress adjourns is far from certain since staffers to key Democrats in both chambers of Congress complained they were not consulted on the package.
“The first time Finance Committee Dems saw Brady’s legislation was in his press release,” Top Senate Finance Committee Democrat Ron Wyden’s spokeswoman Rachel McCleery tweeted Monday evening, the Washington Examiner reported. “There was no communication from his staff, including a heads up that something was coming. That is not how you negotiate.” McCleery said.