http://www.regulations.gov/#!documentDetail;D=IRS-2015-0049-0001
When I declare my giving at tax time I am required to have proof in case of an audit. That is sufficient. The other is nothing but an I.R.S. witch hunt.
But, but, but national security and all that B.S. It’ll give us the identity of every terrorist supporting imans and all those bad guys.
I think we know what happens to comments. They go straight to the circular file.
There is no reason to do this. They should be more focused on if the group is actually operating as a nonprofit.
Completely unnecessary. The charitable group is required to issue a receipt to the donor, who then claims the deduction and files the receipt in case of audit.
The charitable group can then be asked to validate the receipt if the IRS requests. The giver can usually also produce a canceled check as proof of the donation.
What purpose, other than intimidation, does collecting social security numbers serve? What about existing statutes restricting the use of a social security number as an identification number?
Hogwash.
I want the IRS gone!
And, while we are at it....
the EPA, Gone
State Dept shaved by 50%, and that’s just for starters
Education Dept, totally gone
Homeland Security, get rid of 75% of the pencil pushers
All judges subject to recall
All the Joint Chiefs of Staff, fired and replaced
Secret Service fired and replaced by the military
And while large charities can more easily gather and track donor SSN's, this requirement will place an enormous burden om small non-profits.
It's big government destroying grass-roots charity. All praise Big Government, the taker and giver of all that is important!
I’d say that they might not be interested in hindering the non-profits; that it is just a byproduct.
The most paranoid view—justified with this administration—is that they want to collect a full political profile of the citizenry.
We’ve already heard from several sources (including Maxine Waters, in an intemperate remark) that the government was assembling a huge racially oriented database to facilitate seeding of white neighborhoods with minorities using tax dollars. Why not up the pressure by also using political knowledge at the individual level? It’s a very modern, leftist application of technology.
Elect a true conservative and it ends.
Our government is our worst enemy. The IRS is at the top of this tyrannical ladder.
The Treasury Department and the IRS are concerned about the potential risk for identity theft involved with donee reporting given that donees will be collecting donors' taxpayer identification numbers and maintaining those numbers for some period of time. The Treasury Department and the IRS request comments on whether additional guidance is necessary regarding the procedures a donee should use in soliciting and maintaining a donor's taxpayer identification number and address to mitigate the risk.
The actual text also states/claims that this proposal is motivated by taxpayers who have complained that getting a "contemporaneous written acknowledgment (CWA) from the donee organization" is inconvenient and that they would rather just reveal their social security numbers so that the need for the CWA can be eliminated.
Those opposed are a mix of donors who don't want their identities stolen and donees who don't want to be responsible for safeguarding people's social security numbers.
ARGH