Don’t Turn Over Reader List To IRS Rules Judge Hall

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Tuesday, Sep. 4, 2007 at 8:39 am

September 4th, 2007

Can the IRS obtain information about what you read on a website even if you have done nothing wrong?

I didn’t think it was possible until I read “Order on Tax Evasion Site Blocked” in the NY Times:

On Friday, Judge Peter W. Hall temporarily blocked the portion of the order requiring Mr. Schulz to turn over to the government the names and identifying details of people who had obtained information at the Web site on how to stop federal tax from being withheld from their paychecks.

My position is clear, I’m a card carrying member of the ACLU. Do you think the IRS should be able to get that list?

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Ron Patiro
September 4th, 2007
10:04 am

NO. Replace Google with this website and George Orwell’s 1984 becomes too close to reality for comfort.
John Quarto-vonTivadar
September 5th, 2007
12:42 pm

let’s go to a VAT system and make the entire IRS plus all the effort that goes into filing taxes just go away.

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