IRS plans to allow preparers to sell data

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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.

philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/14147002.htm
 
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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.

philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/14147002.htm
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Not this accountant. I read the proposal that could not believe what I was seeing. The only part of the proposal I liked was a requirement that clients be told if their tax return is going to be outsourced overseas. You be surprised in a how many tax returns are now done in India.
 
What happened to the “right of privacy”… Oh Yeah … That only applied to abortion :rolleyes:

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The proposed rules, which would become effective 30 days after a final version is published, would require a tax preparer to obtain written consent before selling tax information.
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This tidbit again points out how the regulatory process normally works. Some federal agency proposes a change to existing regulation and publishes it in the Federal Register for comment. It receives numerous comments, perhaps mostly negative. At the end of the comment period, the agency publishes the final rule in the Federal Register, along with a summary of the comments, briefly stating why it is disregarding them, and putting the final rule into effect.
 
I don’t know what everyone is all upset about. What is going to happen is that they will give our data to third parties so they can asses what I need and offer it to me. This means no more having to T-Vo hours and hours of commercials to find out what I need.

Now they can look at my income and call and tell me what I need or send me an e-mail. The great thing is they are conscientious enough to look at where I live and call me when I am most likely home with my family. Such as during supper.
 
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Shibboleth:
I don’t know what everyone is all upset about. What is going to happen is that they will give our data to third parties so they can asses what I need and offer it to me. This means no more having to T-Vo hours and hours of commercials to find out what I need.

Now they can look at my income and call and tell me what I need or send me an e-mail. The great thing is they are conscientious enough to look at where I live and call me when I am most likely home with my family. Such as during supper.
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How on earth could you need something and not know it?

When I need something, I simply comparison shop – something that TV and commercials do not allow me to do.

The last thing I need is to make it easier for someone to know enough about me to successfully steal my identity.
 
BUREAUCRATS!!!

The wonders of big government…

… perhaps this will provide the impetus for downsizing the government and moving to a sales tax. No more tax returns at all. And no more tax data bases.

On the other hand, since the advent of lap-top computers, more personal data has been stolen from the lap-top computers of various health insurers and others … when their computers were stolen from the trunks of their cars, Etc.
 
vern humphrey:
How on earth could you need something and not know it?

When I need something, I simply comparison shop – something that TV and commercials do not allow me to do.

The last thing I need is to make it easier for someone to know enough about me to successfully steal my identity.
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Well it would have been nice for someone to give me a call during supper and tell me to do that…

I always say keep bad credit so that if someone steals your identity they can’t get a credit card.
 
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Shibboleth:
I do the same thing to my mom.
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Funny comment.

But my mom died of breast cancer just short of her 52nd birthday, and left my baby sister, only 14 at the time, without a mother.

I’d give anything if my mom could call and interrupt my dinner.
 
vern humphrey:
Funny comment.

But my mom died of breast cancer just short of her 52nd birthday, and left my baby sister, only 14 at the time, without a mother.

I’d give anything if my mom could call and interrupt my dinner.
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Sorry to hear about your loss. If I were in the same situation I think it would scare the bejesus out of me if I got that call.

I don’t honestly hand up on my mother and the national no-call list has weeded out most of the sales calls I used to get.
 
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Shibboleth:
Sorry to hear about your loss. If I were in the same situation I think it would scare the bejesus out of me if I got that call.

I don’t honestly hand up on my mother and the national no-call list has weeded out most of the sales calls I used to get.
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Next time you mother calls, thank God you have a mother to call you.
 
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