Give the Taxpayer Advocate more resources and strengthen taxpayer rights
What the document says“Congress should provide the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate with greater resources”
The chapter says legal protections for taxpayer rights and privacy remain inadequate, and asks that interest on overpayments match interest on underpayments rather than the government receiving a higher rate, that the time limit for suing over improper collection be extended, that the Tax Court's jurisdiction be expanded, and that the penalty structure be rationalized with the most punitive penalties reduced.
What the document actually says“Congress should provide the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate with greater resources”
Give the office that helps taxpayers more money to work with.
One office helps people the tax agency has treated wrongly. The book says it needs more staff and money.
Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. Nothing indexed adds resources to the Office of the Taxpayer Advocate, matches the interest rate on overpayments to the rate on underpayments, extends the time to sue over improper collection, or expands the Tax Court's jurisdiction. The candidates are unrelated to the subject. The nearest enacted law on taxpayer rights is the Internal Revenue Service Math and Taxpayer Help Act, which requires a math error notice to describe the error in plain language, to show an itemized computation and to display the abatement deadline, but it says nothing about the Advocate or about any of the other changes asked for here. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.