After coming back into town to hammer out the details, the House appears set to vote on the bipartisan infrastructure bill before the end of September.
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act cleared the Senate with a 69-30 vote earlier this month.
It isn’t expected to change much as the House takes up the bipartisan bill, meaning federal employee groups are already counting their wins and losses as they review the legislation and prepare for changes that may eventually become law.
Here are a few key highlights from the bipartisan infrastructure bill that may impact federal employees and their agencies.
More work for the IRS — again
The bill cancels a few COVID-19 relief programs that the IRS implemented in 2020 and expanded earlier this year, namely the employee retention credit program, which incentivized small businesses to keep workers on their rolls.
The program would end Sept. 30, giving the IRS little to no time to prepare and make complicated mid-year tax changes, supervisors and managers at the agency say.
“When there’s a mid-season tax change it’s always very complicated,” said Chad…
