IRS plan would allow sale of tax data to marketers

[kpete]

Nation/world business
IRS plan would allow sale of tax data to marketers

March 21, 2006
BY JEFF GELLES

KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS
PHILADELPHIA -- The Internal Revenue Service is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns.

If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers for the first time would be able to sell information from individual returns -- or even entire returns -- to marketers and data brokers.

The change is in a set of proposed rules the Treasury Department and the IRS published in the Dec. 8 Federal Register, where the official notice labeled them "not a significant regulatory action."

more at:
http://freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060321/BUSINESS07/603210412/1020/BUSINESS

[Chimichurri]

1. WTF! This is a disgrace. n/t

[kpete]

3. but are you surprised?

[unhappycamper]

2. Mailing this to everyone in my email addr book

Thanks.
K&R

[lectrobyte]

4. All your secrets are belong to us!

You have no chance to survive make your time.