House lawmakers renew IRS push to digitize  paper returns

House lawmakers renew IRS push to digitize  paper returns

Congress is making another run this year at legislation aimed at more easily digitizing paper tax return forms at the IRS. Reps. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., and Rudy Yakym, R-Ind., this week introduced the Barcode Automation for Revenue Collection to Organize Disbursement and Enhance Efficiency Act, which would require prepared tax returns to include scannable code on the paper forms.  The bill, otherwise known as the BARCODE Efficiency Act, also ca…