IRS preparers will be allowed to sell data

scaeagles · 03-21-2006, 07:05 PM

Goodness I'm glad I do my own taxes.

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/b...s/14147002.htm

"The IRS is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns. If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers will be able to sell information from individual returns - or even entire returns - to marketers and data brokers."

Um....over my dead body.

Ghoulish Delight · 03-21-2006, 07:17 PM

Vomit.

Prudence · 03-21-2006, 07:24 PM

I'm thinking I should make it a point to take individual income tax next year. Although I do my own anyhow, and likely will continue. (Frankly, if someone else did them, I'd feel like I had to check their work. It's like cleaning before the maid comes by.)

€uroMeinke · 03-21-2006, 07:41 PM

How much for a Social Security Number do you suppose?

Ghoulish Delight · 03-21-2006, 08:07 PM

Sanity check: Preparers can already sell information to "affiliated" groups (i.e., any other part of whatever holding company they are under). The change would remove the "affiliated" restriction. AND (here's the important part) it would require, just as it does now, a signed consent from the customer.

CoasterMatt · 03-21-2006, 08:26 PM

Would you be so kind as to clean up your vomit from the lounge

€uroMeinke · 03-21-2006, 08:34 PM

"Your signed tax return implies your consent"

Gemini Cricket · 03-22-2006, 07:06 AM

They can take my data, but they'll never take my FREEEDOOOOM!

Oh, wait....

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scaeagles I LIKE! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 7,819	IRS preparers will be allowed to sell data Goodness I'm glad I do my own taxes. http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/b...s/14147002.htm "The IRS is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns. If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers will be able to sell information from individual returns - or even entire returns - to marketers and data brokers." Um....over my dead body.
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Prudence Beelzeboobs, Esq. Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Gavel - I haz it Posts: 6,287	I'm thinking I should make it a point to take individual income tax next year. Although I do my own anyhow, and likely will continue. (Frankly, if someone else did them, I'd feel like I had to check their work. It's like cleaning before the maid comes by.) __________________ traguna macoities tracorum satis de
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	How much for a Social Security Number do you suppose? __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Sanity check: Preparers can already sell information to "affiliated" groups (i.e., any other part of whatever holding company they are under). The change would remove the "affiliated" restriction. AND (here's the important part) it would require, just as it does now, a signed consent from the customer. __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	"Your signed tax return implies your consent" __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	They can take my data, but they'll never take my FREEEDOOOOM! Oh, wait....
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