To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the payment of certain Federal taxes with bitcoin.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8822.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GAETZ, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 106, June 25, 2024, Page H4152):
  Article 1, Section 8 The single subject of this legislation is: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow the payment of certain Federal taxes with bitcoin.
  Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record June 25, 2024 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  166 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 8822, 118th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/8822

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  September 11, 2024

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 14, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  76322475c9fd11c6748798609af7f548e7af143605d579a9502e7ecd692b3352

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of September 11, 2024). Not every bill gets one.

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