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IRS High-Tech Tools Track Your Digital Footprints
By Richard Satran, U.S.News & World Report
Fri, Apr 5, 2013
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The Internal Revenue Service is collecting a lot more than taxes this year–it’s also acquiring a huge volume of personal information on taxpayers’ digital activities, from eBay auctions to Facebook posts and, for the first time ever, credit card and e-payment transaction records, as it expands its search for tax cheats to places it’s never gone before.
The IRS, under heavy pressure to help Washington out of its budget quagmire by chasing down an estimated $300 billion in revenue lost to evasions and errors each year, will start using “robo-audits” of tax forms and third-party data the IRS hopes will help close this so-called “tax gap.” But the agency reveals little about how it will employ its vast, new network scanning powers.
Tax lawyers and watchdogs are concerned about the sweeping changes being implemented with little public discussion or clear guidelines, and Congressional staff sources say the IRS use of “big data” will be a key issue when the next IRS chief comes to the Senate for approval. Acting commissioner Steven T. Miller replaced Douglas Shulman last November.
“It’s well-known in the tax community, but not many people outside of it are aware of this big expansion of data and computer use,” says Edward Zelinsky, a tax law expert and professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and Yale Law School. “I am sure people will be concerned about the use of personal information on databases in government, and those concerns are well-taken. It’s appropriate to watch it carefully. There should be safeguards.” He adds that taxpayers should know that whatever people do and say electronically can and will be used against them in IRS enforcement.
IRS’s big data tracking. Consumers are already familiar with Internet “cookies” that track their movements and send them targeted ads that follow them to different websites. The IRS has brought in private industry experts to employ similar digital tracking–but with the added advantage of access to Social Security numbers, health records, credit card transactions and many other privileged forms of information that marketers don’t see.
“Private industry would be envious if they knew what our models are,” boasted Dean Silverman, the agency’s high-tech top gun who heads a group recruited from the private sector to update the IRS, in a comment reported in trade publications. The IRS did not respond to a request for an interview.
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foreign corporation reality
1933 incorporation document
Who says that the IRS is not a foreign corporation, that had to obtain it’s first incorporated status in the U.S. in the state of Delaware in 1933? It’s actually based in Puerto Rico, with its U.S. branch in Delaware, and its purpose is to collect/extort/scam fraudulent taxes to send on to the Federal Reserve, International Monetary Fund and World Bank, all the way up the line to the Big Kahuna (Lord Rothschild himself, whoever the latest incarnation of Evil is).
The [IRS] is a Private Corporation whose only connection with the U. S. Government is as an instrumentality. None of these so-called taxes go to run any aspect of the U.S. Govt. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!! Continue reading →
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IRS victim John Trowbridge did not take his IRS attack sitting down. He investigated their presumed authority over him (and his property) and started asking for the documentation that obligated him to pay them anything to the District of Columbia Corporation. While he offered many times to pay them once they clarified his status as a US citizen, they were unwilling (or unable) to provide it.
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