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IRS High-Tech Tools Track Your Digital Foorprint
US News ^ | 4-5-2013 | Richard Satran

Posted on 04/06/2013 4:19:30 AM PDT by benasawin

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: digitalfootprint; ebay; facebook; irs; irsoutofcontrol; snoopingirs; taxavoidance; taxes; taxevasion; tracking
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To: benasawin

The elite-socialist political class has taken our Constitution and Bill Of Rights and used these two documents, felt precious by our forefathers, and used them for toilet paper.

They’ve worked overtime to prove that our Republic doesn’t function for the common good anymore.

Perhaps America needs to open a can of whoopass and be led for a decade or so by a benevolent despot like, say, Francisco Franco, Alberto Fujimori or Augusto Pinochet.

Considering that the homosexuals and the socialists now rule our nation it may be time to take drastic measures. Under the current system the nation can sink only deeper into an irreversible morass.


21 posted on 04/06/2013 6:07:35 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: panaxanax
Interesting story.

The last time I had to present my phone number in a situation like that, I simply gave them a number that I had when I lived in a different area of the state more than a decade earlier.

22 posted on 04/06/2013 6:15:40 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: benasawin

23 posted on 04/06/2013 6:23:26 AM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet - Mater tua caligas exercitus gerit ;-{)
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To: Alberta's Child

Problem with that is that a fishing lisence is an official state document and doing what you suggest is perjury.


24 posted on 04/06/2013 6:28:19 AM PDT by Roccus
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To: All
Lots of computing power, for what? The agency's computers can now load all U.S. tax returns in just 10 hours, compared with the four months it took just eight years ago, Jeff Butler, IRS director of research databases told the IBM TechAmerica conference last November. That leaves a lot of time for other uses. The IRS says it expects 80 percent of its tax returns to be filed electronically this year. That makes a total of 250 million returns filed, with $2 trillion in revenue.

All the more reason to file your return on paper instead of electronically. Force them to expend their labor forces processing paper. I always make a minor mistake in calculation - in their favor of course. This forces them to manually reprocess the return.

If all of us were to do this at tax time the gestapo wouldn't have time for these shenanigans.

25 posted on 04/06/2013 6:29:39 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Roccus

“I’m sorry — I forgot.”


26 posted on 04/06/2013 6:35:55 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("I am the master of my fate ... I am the captain of my soul.")
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To: Alberta's Child

“My old-timer’s is flaring up again” ;-)


27 posted on 04/06/2013 6:52:30 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: jsanders2001

I’m partial to 867-5309 myself.


28 posted on 04/06/2013 6:55:02 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: dljordan

I seriously doubt if they’ll bother our guests from south of the border getting refunds for nonexistent children.

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Sadly true. Of course, they have to keep tabs on those of us who are the cash cow supporting such guests.


29 posted on 04/06/2013 7:01:52 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: freedumb2003

I have been very happy with my purchases from eBay.

This is scary stuff, and I stopped using Facebook for the reasons you refer to. (But I sure do miss seeing those photos of the grandchildren. The kids send some of them to me, but I miss the real time updates about them.)


30 posted on 04/06/2013 7:08:24 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: panaxanax

“They refused to sell me one because I wouldn’t give them my unlisted home phone number.”

Home-depot wanted my birth date to make a purchase the other day. I told them I didn’t know because I was adopted from a Czechoslovakian orphanage and there were no records. In the end, I gave them a phony date...


31 posted on 04/06/2013 7:18:28 AM PDT by babygene ( .)
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To: IbJensen

To think they are “celebrating” the 100th anniversary of the income tax.

**SPIT**

A pox on all of them!


32 posted on 04/06/2013 7:34:19 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: babygene

“Home-depot wanted my birth date to make a purchase the other day. I told them I didn’t know because I was adopted from a Czechoslovakian orphanage and there were no records. In the end, I gave them a phony date...”

Geez were you buying wine for your flowers?!

Thanks to warnings over a decade ago from a younger relative and his Stanford grad wife, we never do anything like that.

No Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Kohls and whatever ever credit card.

My nephew and his very smart wife told us that we have one maternal mother’s name, one birthdate and place, one first dog and other firsts. The more one uses these personal data, the easier we make it for the crooks. When I have to sign up, my mother’s maiden was Claus, and I was born 12/25/1900, my dog was Rudolf and similar stuff.

One friend only uses hot mail with the following addressee, John Doe (with several numbers after him).

Facebook, LinkedIn and similar sites are for the perpetually lonely and stupid.


33 posted on 04/06/2013 7:35:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (What do Sequester, Mayan Apocolypse, Y2K & Gorebull Warming have in common? They were/are 100% BS!)
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To: panaxanax

Just use bloomberg’s number. or cuomos. or obozos


34 posted on 04/06/2013 7:38:31 AM PDT by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: benasawin; All
Maybe the IRS will see the Supreme Court's official clarification of Congress's limited power to lay taxes when it spies on Free Republic members.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." --Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.

35 posted on 04/06/2013 7:45:12 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Grampa Dave

“No Home Depot, Lowes, Target, Kohls and whatever ever credit card.”

I learned something recently. One of our IT employees was looking for a backpack at Target he wanted but wanted to pay cash instead. The Target customer service said to buy the target prepaid card and you can use it to buy from the site. He just changed his IP address from his laptop and he actually did buy it using the card. The bad part is the address where it’s going to..


36 posted on 04/06/2013 7:46:33 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: theBuckwheat

Bitcoin is a vaporware ponzi scheme that can disappear at the touch of a keystroke.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/04/05/why-bitcoin-is-doomed-to-fail.aspx


37 posted on 04/06/2013 7:52:16 AM PDT by SVTCobra03 (You can never have enough friends, horsepower or ammunition.)
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To: jsanders2001
You're correct. The monster needs more food and it will eat it's children to get it.


38 posted on 04/06/2013 8:07:47 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: babygene

That might be a state law. Here in Illinois the nannies won’t let you buy lye without a DL. In Chicago, you cannot buy spray paint.


39 posted on 04/06/2013 8:14:49 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: benasawin

This sure sounds like a direct attack on the 4th Amendment about privacy.


40 posted on 04/06/2013 8:26:57 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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