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2021 SPECIAL SESSION I

21100872D
HOUSE BILL NO. 2060
Offered January 13, 2021
Prefiled January 12, 2021
A BILL to direct the Department of Taxation to establish an online portal for tax practitioners.
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Patrons-- Coyner, Mugler, Avoli and Keam
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Referred to Committee on Finance
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. § 1. That the Department of Taxation shall establish an online portal for tax practitioners to access client information. The online portal shall be accessible only by tax practitioners who possess a valid Power of Attorney and Declaration of Representative form for each client for which the practitioner seeks to access confidential information. In establishing the online portal, the Department of Taxation shall examine comparable services offered by the Internal Revenue Service or by other states that provide electronic access to confidential taxpayer information and shall provide a similar level of service. The scope of information that may be disclosed pursuant to this act shall be the same as is currently authorized for nonelectronic access to taxpayer information under current law.

§ 2. The online portal authorized by this act shall be operational no later than July 1, 2023.