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Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 08:55:41 -0400 (EDT)
To: GovtAware-L@Citadel.Net
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: Re: GovtAware:  IRS
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And so, they will all have a "reason" now.

/s/ Paul Mitchell



At 01:59 AM 4/11/97 -0400, you wrote:
>I wonder if this measure applies to the ones they can find or if they are
>still free to look at the ones they have lost. At any rate it is an
>interesting pair of posts to receive the same day.
>
>>From the Daily Brief:
>>* The House Ways and Means Committee yesterday passed a measure
>>  making it a crime for IRS employees to look, without reason,
>>  into confidential taxpayer information.
>
>>From the Daily Outrage:
>>The Daily Outrage!
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>>
>>Wednesday, April 9, 1997
>>
>>                       IRS SLAMMED BY GAO!
>>
>>Government agencies are not known for being harsh critics of each other.
>>After all, they're in the same taxpayer-funded family. So you know
>something's *really* wrong when the General Accounting Office -- the
>government's normally-tame watchdog -- harshly criticizes fellow bureaucrats.
>>
>>The GAO says your tax returns are pretty much an open book. In fact, in
>1994 and 1995, over 1,500 IRS employees were investigated for unauthorized
>snooping. And that's only the ones who got caught!
>>
>>But it's also possible that no one's looking at your return -- because it
>could well be lost. The GAO says that about 6,400 data tapes containing
>taxpayer info cannot be found. In other words, the IRS lost them. (Of
>course, IRS employees may have just lent them to their friends to browse.)
>>
>>In addition to the fact that the IRS doesn't really know who's looking at
>your return, or even whether they actually have your return, there's always
>the question of where your money actually goes. But that's an Outrage for
>another day.
>>
>>Read more about it in the Reuter Story:
><http://www.yahoo.com/headlines/970409/news/stories/irs_1.html>
>>
>>
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