IRS Plans to Allow Tax Preparers to Sell Clients Tax Return Info to Marketers

[mandy]

IRS plans to allow preparers to sell data
Critics said the proposed regulation could lead to a loss of privacy for clients.

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.

The change is raising alarm among consumer and privacy-rights advocates. It was included in a set of proposed rules that the Treasury Department and the IRS published in the Dec. 8 Federal Register, where the official notice labeled them "not a significant regulatory action."...

full article: http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/14147002.htm

[jezebel]

the official notice labeled them "not a significant regulatory action

:blinkie:  

"There is no more sensitive information than a taxpayer's return, and the IRS's proposal to allow these returns to be sold to third-party marketers and database brokers is deeply troubling,

No fucking shit.

[regic]

Shakes head and pukes...

[accentnepal]

                                               

[rose]

Did the tax preparers lobbyists bribe a few officials or is someone in the Treasury Department sleeping with an accountant?