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01-09-2006, 01:46 PM
January 8, 2006
IRS Said to Improperly Restrict Access
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:00 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration has illegally stopped making public detailed tax enforcement data, which has been used to show which kinds of taxpayers get the most and toughest audits, a noted tax researcher says.
Syracuse University Professor Susan B. Long said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle late last week that since Nov. 1, 2004, the Internal Revenue Service has violated a 1976 court order requiring the release of the data.
IRS spokesman Terry Lemons responded Friday, ''We do not believe we are in violation of the court order.''
Ny Times (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-IRS-Secrecy.html)
Let's just say, hypothetically of course, that the Bush Administration wanted to use it's God-given 'data mining' priveledge to track Taxpayer Political Affiliation (http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5440902p-4912739c.html)
Oh what a wonderful world when you can freely abuse a governement agency to get back at your political enemies, or the media, and there is not nearly a whiff of any Congressional or Senate over-sight.
IRS Said to Improperly Restrict Access
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:00 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Bush administration has illegally stopped making public detailed tax enforcement data, which has been used to show which kinds of taxpayers get the most and toughest audits, a noted tax researcher says.
Syracuse University Professor Susan B. Long said in papers filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle late last week that since Nov. 1, 2004, the Internal Revenue Service has violated a 1976 court order requiring the release of the data.
IRS spokesman Terry Lemons responded Friday, ''We do not believe we are in violation of the court order.''
Ny Times (http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-IRS-Secrecy.html)
Let's just say, hypothetically of course, that the Bush Administration wanted to use it's God-given 'data mining' priveledge to track Taxpayer Political Affiliation (http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/story/5440902p-4912739c.html)
Oh what a wonderful world when you can freely abuse a governement agency to get back at your political enemies, or the media, and there is not nearly a whiff of any Congressional or Senate over-sight.