You may not. A report issued by the Treasury Inspector General for Administration (TIGTA) (downloads as a pdf) found that the IRS does not always act promptly to notify taxpayers when personal and private taxpayer information has been accidentally disclosed. Information can be inadvertently disclosed a few ways. Mix-ups can happen at the return level:…
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in the UK – sort of the equivalent of the IRS in the US – has lost computer disks containing confidential details of 25 million child benefit recipients. As a result, the UK’s top tax official and head of the HMRC, Paul Gray, has resigned. How did it happen? In…
That’s right. The IRS has announced that Zip Code Area tables for Tax Years 2002 and 2004 are available for purchase. That’s right, purchase. If you’re racking your brain to remember, yes, this information used to be available for free (you can see the 2001 data here). The cost is now $25 per state or…