Autofill Act of 2026

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [H.R. 8299 Introduced in House (IH)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 8299 To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program to populate downloadable tax forms with taxpayer return information. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES April 15, 2026 Mr. Foster (for himself and Ms. Tlaib) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means _______________________________________________________________________ A BILL To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a program to populate downloadable tax forms with taxpayer return information. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. This Act may be cited as the ``Autofill Act of 2026''. SEC. 2. AUTOMATED PARTIALLY PRE-POPULATED TAX RETURNS. (a) In General.--Chapter 77 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by adding at the end the following new section: ``SEC. 7531. AUTOMATED PARTIALLY PRE-POPULATED TAX RETURNS. ``(a) Establishment of Program.--The Secretary shall establish a program under which taxpayers may download forms relating to the individual income tax returns that are populated with return information reported to the Secretary under chapter 61 and reported to the Secretary pursuant to section 232 of the Social Security Act. ``(b) Requirements Relating to Information.-- ``(1) Deadline for making information available.--The Secretary shall make such return information available under the program established under subsection (a) not later than 15 days after the Secretary receives such information. ``(2) Format of information made available.--Return information shall be made available under the program established under subsection (a) in both a printable document file suitable for manual completion and fili