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Democrats to scale back Treasury’s IRS bank reporting plan amid GOP uproar

The Washington Post

10/18/2021 at 4:16 p.m. EDT|Updated 10/18/2021 at 4:48 p.m. EDT

 

Senate Democrats on Tuesday will unveil a scaled-back version of a Biden administration proposal to crack down on wealthy tax cheats after conservative groups and the bank industry raised major privacy concerns, three people with knowledge of the coming announcement said.

Initially, the Department of Treasury and Senate Democrats had proposed requiring financial institutions to provide the Internal Revenue Service with additional information on bank accounts with more than $600 in annual deposits or withdrawals.

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