Time: Wed Aug 06 04:37:00 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA20687; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 04:28:20 -0700 (MST) by usr10.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id EAA13834; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 04:26:40 -0700 (MST) Date: Wed, 06 Aug 1997 04:25:43 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Clinton signs Taxpayer Browsing Act Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <snip > >Wait a minute... this MUST be some other >President Clinton we're taling about here. > >Harley Silver > >Copyright © 1997 Nando.net >Copyright © 1997 The Associated Press > >WASHINGTON (August 5, 1997 9:21 p.m. EDT) -- President >Clinton signed into law Tuesday a bill that makes it a crime for IRS >employees to look through confidential taxpayer files if the >research isn't directly related to their work. > >Clinton approved the Taxpayer Browsing Act, which would impose >a maximum one year in jail and a $100,000 fine on IRS employees >convicted of inspecting tax returns without authorization. > >"'Browsing taxpayer information is wrong, and we all condemn it," >Clinton said in a statement. "Taxpayers have the right to expect that >their returns and return information are, and will remain, >confidential." > >An Internal Revenue Service report identified 1,515 browsing >cases in fiscal years 1994 and 1995, which resulted in the firing of >23 IRS workers. > >Clinton said that while browsing tax records on a federal computer >already is a crime, the IRS needed a better means of preventing >unauthorized inspection of taxpayer data. > >"Maintaining the confidentiality of the information submitted by >taxpayers is critical to the operation of this system," Clinton said. >"If taxpayers do not believe that the government is adequately >safeguarding their personal financial information, they may be less >willing to supply that information in the future." > >To unsubscribe from the Cicero mailing list send a message to >cicero-request@pyx.net with only the word unsubscribe in the >message body and you'll be removed from the Cicero mailing list. >"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.-A.J.Liebling" >Visit http://www.linux.org to learn about Linux the free Unix OS. > >--------------- > <snip> ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. Irvine tel: (520) 320-1514: machine; fax: (520) 320-1256: 24-hour/day-night email: [address in tool bar] : using Eudora Pro 3.0.3 on 586 CPU website: http://www.supremelaw.com : visit the Supreme Law Library now ship to: c/o 2509 N. Campbell, #1776 : this is free speech, at its best Tucson, Arizona state : state zone, not the federal zone Postal Zone 85719/tdc : USPS delays first class w/o this As agents of the Most High, we came here to establish justice. We shall not leave, until our mission is accomplished and justice reigns eternal. ======================================================================== [This text formatted on-screen in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
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