A bill that redesigns the Internal Revenue Service looks ready to be signed into law soon, as both the House and Senate re-passed the Taxpayer First Act of 2019 this week.

The Taxpayer First Act of 2019, which has bipartisan support, originally passed the full House on April 2 and included a “free-file” provision prohibiting the IRS from creating a free tax-preparation software and thus competing with the tax-preparation industry. Lawmakers reintroduced a new version of the bill, H.R. 3151, however, that excludes that provision, which the House again passed on Tuesday and the Senate passed on Thursday.

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