Posted on 12/16/2022 3:36:08 PM PST by george76
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) mistakenly released the private data of roughly 112,000 taxpayers in September and again in late November, the agency disclosed Thursday.
An IRS programming error in September caused the release of 112,000 individual 990-T forms, a form used by IRA holders to report retirement account assets. The IRS is required to publicize 990-T forms filled out by nonprofit organizations but not those completed by individual taxpayers,
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The 990-T data was accidentally released again in November when a contractor uploaded an outdated file holding the private information, the IRS said in a Thursday letter to Congress. The agency is required to inform Congress of disclosures involving 100,000 forms or more...
An independent researcher alerted the IRS on Dec.1 after noticing the files were still online, and the IRS ordered the contractor to immediately take them down, Bloomberg reported. The IRS is reconsidering its relationship with consulting firm Accenture, the contractor for the database.
The IRS recently reminded taxpayers about the requirement to disclose digital payments of $600 or more, as stipulated in the 2021 American Rescue Plan
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Taxpayers may receive 1099-K forms for a single transaction exceeding $600, down from the $20,000 threshold prior to 2022, the agency said in a press release. The 1099-K form is used to voluntarily disclose third party payment transactions.
Incompetent lazy ass government employees. This problem is solved by sending all of them to the unemployment line. Replace the entire IRS with a flat consumption tax collected by the states and wired to the US Treasury. No more filing taxes. No more business taxes. No more inheritance taxes. Everyone pays their fair share. Everyone.
“My bad . . . sorry.”
Citizens do something accidentally, and they usually pay a price in the court of law. When the government does something “accidentally”, the citizens are still the ones who pay the price.
112,000 MAGA republicans????? - just asking!!
I doubt it was accidental.
No, corrupt 3Ps. (Public Private Partnerships). The lazy and/or incompetent folks work for Accenture, not the IRS. The solution is to get rid of the contractors, and use employees to do the work.
‘sorry’..And that’s the end of it!
At least in today’s upside down world, where the non-important becomes the most important, and vice versa.
The folks in question are 90% registered Republicans no doubt.
Exactly
https://warroom.org/2022/12/16/hunter-biden-linked-energy-company-tied-to-china-receiving-millions/
Who got fired?
Okay, Mr. Big Government guy. By the way, when you eliminate government you also eliminate the need for contractors.
It’s never accidental. They lie. It was planned to produce the most damage.
“accidentally”?
Not buying it with this current political climate.
They obviously NEED 87,000 more well armed agents.
You !ran put all those demoncraps out of work?
All conservatives I bet.
1. Reason #423,764,098 to scrap the tax code and go with a national retail sales tax.
2. What are the demographics of those whose private data was released? Disproportionately Republicans, by any chance? Sort of like how voting machines disproportionately rejected ballots in red precincts, out of sheer coincidence?
3. Who is/are going to go to jail as a result of this illegal leak of confidential data? (Just kidding ... it’s not a crime when they do it.)
“IRS Admits To Accidentally Releasing Private Data Of About 112,000 Taxpayers”
IRS Admits To incompetently Releasing Private Data Of About 112,000 Taxpayers
There, fixed it
“Mistakes were made” “At this point what difference does it make?”
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