[John Lenin]

I don't think this is a good idea at all.

[Black Agnes]

Identity theft writ large! Wheeeeeeeeeeee.

[Black Agnes]

ping!

[Beck_isright]

"The very notion of transmitting confidential tax data - from Social Security and employer identification numbers to financial information - to any foreign country, even Canada, borders on the reprehensible at best, and is treasonous at worst," Caroll fumed."

Of course after having your bank account hacked, the IRS will tell you that's no excuse for your check that you wrote to them bouncing. Time to implement the flat tax now. What's the point in getting an accounting degree if this is the way we will operate as a nation.

[The_Media_never_lie]

I don't think this is a good idea at all.

Where's the value added here?

Wouldn't it make more sense to streamline the accounting laws to uncomplicate the process rather than export the inefficiency to foreign accountants?

Nothing against the Indians, they are smart people and good workers, but this is crummy!

[Cultural Jihad]

"...treasonous..." ... wrote Prof Lloyd Caroll, head of the accounting department at Manhattan Borough Community College.

LOL!

[lilylangtree]

Wow! I can hardly believe this. I'm totally wigged out. Checking with my accountant ASAP.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Here's the job future in America. Young (and not so young) people will have to receive training in skills that are not easily exportable.

You can't send the leaking plumbing in your house to India for repair. If your heat pump stops working, you won't send it overseas for repair. If you need a new transmission in your car, you won't send it to China for a rebuild.

[Rocky]

I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS! It's hard enough to try to keep things private when the U.S. laws are hanging over people. But to send our tax returns outside of the U.S.? No law applies to violations of privacy in this case. And, as someone else points out, identity theft will be rampant, as well as other abuses. Whoever authorized this needs to go to jail.

[Michael.SF.]

Meet your IRS: Punja Chakrabarti

[EdReform]

BTTT for later...

[Uncle Miltie]

Can we outsource lawyering? That would put a dent in the Democrats' coffers!

[Paulus Invictus]

There is a good chance the Indians will lose the forms and the IRS will have to sue them.

[numberonepal]

Once again I will post this link. The Fair Tax

1. No divulging of income to the Imperial Federal Government
2. No corporate taxes (as if they exist anyway)
3. A very very significantly reduced IRS
4. No taxes on used goods or necessities
5. No coerced class envy
6. More money in your pocket
7. No violations of your First and Fifth amendment rights (see #1)
8. Lower prices on everything
9. The "poor" will still pay no taxes
10. More government revenue

What's the problem here? Am I so misinformed thinking that this would work. This seems to me to certainly be the way to go. We don't need cuts we need REFORM AND WE NEED IT NOW!

[Greybird]

This is an EXCELLENT idea. For once, we are exporting nonproductive work to other countries. Since tax-law compliance is a net burden on productive businesses, why shouldn't they minimize the cost by getting it done as cheaply as possible?

And the Indian workers know how to set up and use secure Web servers. Let's not condescend to think they're incapable of secrecy. In any event, it's a matter to be decided by the accounting firms and their business clients, not Congress.

Cut the tax rates to keep the productive jobs at home, and we'll have a proper combination. Conservatives who say they espouse free enterprise -- if there are any around here -- should support both moves.

[busybody]

Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire Freepers ... let's stop whining about how are jobs are being sent overseas and actually do something about it. See my post at the following link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/894818/posts

[aruanan]

I don't think this is a good idea at all.

You're not an American CPA charging big bucks to do someone's taxes and living like a parasite off the misery created by the U.S. tax code, are you?

[Arthalion]

We're setting ourselves up for one hell of a fall. In the future, terrorists won't need to fly jumbo jets into skyscrapers to attack America, they can simply cut a few strands of trans-Pacific fiber and watch our economy implode as the "workforce" is disconnected from the "home office". Of course, I figure that the chronic unemployment caused by millions of outsourced jobs will probably be imploding our economy on its own by then.

The U.S. was created as a free market, but even the founding fathers understood the need to impose tarriffs to protect our own citizens from foreign predation. We need a 500% yearly "job export" tarriff NOW, but since both the Republicans and Democrats seem to be quite comfortable in their corporate-pocket homes, I doubt we'll see that any time soon.

[lavaroise]

Nice to know it is not going to red china... or that the tax payer owes them not the processing cost (sarcasm)

[Hunterb]

WTF??

[Hunterb]

WTF??2