House File 3913 would give $5 million to the Department of Revenue for audit technology aimed at complex filers; labor and community witnesses supported the investment but urged in-house capacity and raised concerns about broad contracting authority and taxpayer data protections.

The Department of Revenue told the committee that through collections, audits and fraud prevention tools it validated about $270 million of stopped refund fraud in the last four years and verified roughly $2.26 billion brought in or prevented over that period; the department said it also blocks millions of attempted cyberattacks annually.

Department of Revenue officials described voluntary compliance programs, identity verification and enforcement tools that yielded about $512 million in collections in 2025 and roughly $270 million in fraud prevented over four years; the department outlined commissioner filings, criminal prosecutions and expanded interagency data sharing.