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The date of April 15th is a date not necessarily fondly referred to by a good many Americans because it is representative of more anxiety than delight. Nor does the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) elicit terms of endearment even for those who might enjoy an income tax refund upon filing their tax returns each year. But it is specifically the preparation of tax filing which has become ever more complex over the years which continues to lead many filers to third party tax preparers such as accounting firms and tax preparation services. In order to adequately abide by requirements in the convoluted IRS Code trust has been extended to tax professionals by many taxpayers in order to avoid the risk of mistakes being made. Also of concern to taxpayers is not only that their income tax preparation be filed correctly and lawfully but that the handling of filers’ most sacred and valuable information is protected from theft misuse or abuse. Therefore the latest proposed changes to the IRS Code as published in the Federal Register on December 8. 2005 has rallied consumer protection advocates and members of the United States Congress to take issue with such change to Section 7216-3 of the IRS Code. But the recommended changes only came to light to not only the public but to members of Congress just three weeks before a public hearing on these new rules at the offices of the IRS which took place on April 4. 2006. Unfortunately the period allowed for submitting public comments for the hearing was closed on March 8. 2006 at the same time that the proposed changes were discovered by consumer advocacy organizations and not lawmakers. Disconcerting is the way in which the proposed changes have been drafted and the arguably surreptitious way in which such changes were made as part of an overhaul of the Code not amended since 1974. Supposedly the redraft is an effort to modernize the Code with rules relevant to electronic business transmissions and the advent of technology since the 1970’s. The new language will require all taxpayers using a third party tax preparation service to specifically sign documentation which provides for the selling of tax information data to outside marketers database brokers or financial institutions. Further signed documentation would be required in order to allow such U. S tax preparer to offshore such tax work such as specifically to India. But the interpretation of the actual language in the new proposed Code including the risks in taxpayers unknowingly signing such papers unaware of their implications is what has raised doubts. Of concern is whether the taxpayer will be appropriately warned about what it is they are actually signing when overwhelmed by a bevy of papers to execute. According to IRS Commissioner. Mark Everson the proposed changes actually improve the safeguards of taxpayer information and are “not significant.” But upon closer examination they increase the chances of identity theft and fraud not only throughout the U. S but across the globe in India where prevention of security breaches rely largely on an honor code rather than dictated by law. Thus a U. S tax return far greater and detailed than any other personal financial document becomes ripe for the picking. Although the basis for the IRS proposed code changes is the use of electronic transmissions and new software technologies in the tax filing system selling information and offshoring tax preparation do not have a direct bearing upon the mechanics of tax filing. The IRS also argues that the 1974 Code or our present tax law already provides for tax preparers to profit off of a tax client’s information by selling it. But that information specifically refers to an “affiliated” company of the tax preparer only. With the new changes tax preparers would be permitted to sell tax information to any third party affiliated or not. However there is a “warning” printed on the consent form for third party permission which clearly states: “Once your tax return information is disclosed to a third party per your consent we have no control over what that third party does with your tax return information. If the third party uses or discloses your tax return information for purposes other than the purpose for which you authorized the disclosure under federal tax law we are not responsible for that subsequent use or disclosure and federal tax law may not protect you from that disclosure.” Thus any third party may sell such information to any other third party business without disclosure to the taxpayer nor any accountability on the part of the tax preparer or the IRS once initial consent is given. The term length of said consent would supposedly be limited to one year. But without accountability mechanisms in place unenforcement of the term will remain. How the IRS can argue that such new rule changes would allow for better privacy controls is dubious at best. With respect to privacy controls in India there is even less scrutiny as the arm of U. S law does not extend to any tax preparation in India nor any offshore locality. Steven Ladd. CEO of Copanion. Inc. and a Certified Public Accountant for over 25 years testified at the IRS Public Hearing on April 4th. He stated. “Security flaws in offshore tax preparation encourage cyber terrorism by those who would victimize every family in our country.” Ladd who operates an accounting firm in New Hampshire went to Bangalore. India in pursuit of offshoring his own tax preparation business in order to save on overall costs. After spending over 60 hours with several large and small firms there. Ladd was “Shocked at the lack of adequate security present at all of them.” He said. “Offshore tax preparers (including data entry workers accountants supervisors. IT staff consultants and owners can see the taxpayer’s name address. Social Security number date of birth phone number wages mutual fund broker bank and bank accounts with their routing numbers. It is the ultimate pot of gold for an identity thief. 1040’s are like an exposed wallet just waiting to be lifted by a career pickpocket." And Ladd specifically proposes adding a warning related to tax preparation outsourced outside of the U. S. Bankrate com a consumer magazine researched data brokers Choice Point and DocuSearch and the worth of various pieces of data contained in a U. S tax return: education history $12.00; credit history $9.00; worker’s compensation record $18.00; bankruptcy information $26.50; military record $35.00; Social Security number $8.00; date of birth $2.00; address $.50; phone number $.25. And how much other information will potentially be sold from a 1040 form has not been addressed. Not only does a taxpayer enjoy no compensation for the information advocacy organizations have further warnings. Non-trained tax preparers unfamiliar with the new rules or those who gain commission or remuneration for having clients sign off on allowing third party use and offshoring of their information may potentially exploit the taxpayer. A letter in March 2006 to IRS Commissioner Everson from 47 state attorneys general stated. “There is simply too much at risk for American taxpayers particularly with respect to the ongoing scourge of identity theft to increase the likelihood that their most personal information will be stolen or misused.” Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as well Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and other members of Congress plan on introducing legislation which would ban the sale of tax return information to third party companies should the new rules be approved. But the law is thus far silent on the offshoring of tax preparation in the future for those filers who prepare their returns themselves. What does remain clear however are the uncertainties with controlling information once taxpayers give consent to either allow their information to be sold to data brokers marketers or financial institutions or any third party on the open market without limitation and/or be offshored. More importantly in the long term is whether the public trust in the sanctity of the U. S income tax system will suffer and be irrevocably lost. Diane M. Grassi is a freelance columnist reporting and writing commentary on current events of the day providing honest and often politically incorrect assessments. From U. S public policy to Major League Baseball she is an eclectic thinker and demanding of her readers to reflect on their own thinking patterns from an alternative perspective. Whether you agree with her or not. Diane M. Grassi will have you coming back to note her opinions and if at best she wakes you up then her goal will have been accomplished. Ms. Grassi is featured with the online publications: New Media Journal us; American Chronicle; Mich News com; the Federal Observer; Opinions Editorials; the Conservative Voice; the Las Vegas Penny Press; the Sierra Times as well as many others. She also writes regular columns on Major League Baseball where she is a featured online columnist with The Diamond Angle Baseball Ezine and Sports-Central org. Ms. Grassi may contacted at:

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The date of April 15th is a date not necessarily fondly referred to by a good many Americans because it is representative of more anxiety than delight. Nor does the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) elicit terms of endearment even for those who might enjoy an income tax refund upon filing their tax returns each year. But it is specifically the preparation of tax filing which has become ever more complex over the years which continues to lead many filers to third party tax preparers such as accounting firms and tax preparation services. In order to adequately abide by requirements in the convoluted IRS Code trust has been extended to tax professionals by many taxpayers in order to avoid the risk of mistakes being made. Also of concern to taxpayers is not only that their income tax preparation be filed correctly and lawfully but that the handling of filers’ most sacred and valuable information is protected from theft misuse or abuse. Therefore the latest proposed changes to the IRS Code as published in the Federal Register on December 8. 2005 has rallied consumer protection advocates and members of the United States Congress to take issue with such change to Section 7216-3 of the IRS Code. But the recommended changes only came to light to not only the public but to members of Congress just three weeks before a public hearing on these new rules at the offices of the IRS which took place on April 4. 2006. Unfortunately the period allowed for submitting public comments for the hearing was closed on March 8. 2006 at the same time that the proposed changes were discovered by consumer advocacy organizations and not lawmakers. Disconcerting is the way in which the proposed changes have been drafted and the arguably surreptitious way in which such changes were made as part of an overhaul of the Code not amended since 1974. Supposedly the redraft is an effort to modernize the Code with rules relevant to electronic business transmissions and the advent of technology since the 1970’s. The new language will require all taxpayers using a third party tax preparation service to specifically sign documentation which provides for the selling of tax information data to outside marketers database brokers or financial institutions. Further signed documentation would be required in order to allow such U. S tax preparer to offshore such tax work such as specifically to India. But the interpretation of the actual language in the new proposed Code including the risks in taxpayers unknowingly signing such papers unaware of their implications is what has raised doubts. Of concern is whether the taxpayer will be appropriately warned about what it is they are actually signing when overwhelmed by a bevy of papers to execute. According to IRS Commissioner. Mark Everson the proposed changes actually improve the safeguards of taxpayer information and are “not significant.” But upon closer examination they increase the chances of identity theft and fraud not only throughout the U. S but across the globe in India where prevention of security breaches rely largely on an honor code rather than dictated by law. Thus a U. S tax return far greater and detailed than any other personal financial document becomes ripe for the picking. Although the basis for the IRS proposed code changes is the use of electronic transmissions and new software technologies in the tax filing system selling information and offshoring tax preparation do not have a direct bearing upon the mechanics of tax filing. The IRS also argues that the 1974 Code or our present tax law already provides for tax preparers to profit off of a tax client’s information by selling it. But that information specifically refers to an “affiliated” company of the tax preparer only. With the new changes tax preparers would be permitted to sell tax information to any third party affiliated or not. However there is a “warning” printed on the consent form for third party permission which clearly states: “Once your tax return information is disclosed to a third party per your consent we have no control over what that third party does with your tax return information. If the third party uses or discloses your tax return information for purposes other than the purpose for which you authorized the disclosure under federal tax law we are not responsible for that subsequent use or disclosure and federal tax law may not protect you from that disclosure.” Thus any third party may sell such information to any other third party business without disclosure to the taxpayer nor any accountability on the part of the tax preparer or the IRS once initial consent is given. The term length of said consent would supposedly be limited to one year. But without accountability mechanisms in place unenforcement of the term will remain. How the IRS can argue that such new rule changes would allow for better privacy controls is dubious at best. With respect to privacy controls in India there is even less scrutiny as the arm of U. S law does not extend to any tax preparation in India nor any offshore locality. Steven Ladd. CEO of Copanion. Inc. and a Certified Public Accountant for over 25 years testified at the IRS Public Hearing on April 4th. He stated. “Security flaws in offshore tax preparation encourage cyber terrorism by those who would victimize every family in our country.” Ladd who operates an accounting firm in New Hampshire went to Bangalore. India in pursuit of offshoring his own tax preparation business in order to save on overall costs. After spending over 60 hours with several large and small firms there. Ladd was “Shocked at the lack of adequate security present at all of them.” He said. “Offshore tax preparers (including data entry workers accountants supervisors. IT staff consultants and owners can see the taxpayer’s name address. Social Security number date of birth phone number wages mutual fund broker bank and bank accounts with their routing numbers. It is the ultimate pot of gold for an identity thief. 1040’s are like an exposed wallet just waiting to be lifted by a career pickpocket." And Ladd specifically proposes adding a warning related to tax preparation outsourced outside of the U. S. Bankrate com a consumer magazine researched data brokers Choice Point and DocuSearch and the worth of various pieces of data contained in a U. S tax return: education history $12.00; credit history $9.00; worker’s compensation record $18.00; bankruptcy information $26.50; military record $35.00; Social Security number $8.00; date of birth $2.00; address $.50; phone number $.25. And how much other information will potentially be sold from a 1040 form has not been addressed. Not only does a taxpayer enjoy no compensation for the information advocacy organizations have further warnings. Non-trained tax preparers unfamiliar with the new rules or those who gain commission or remuneration for having clients sign off on allowing third party use and offshoring of their information may potentially exploit the taxpayer. A letter in March 2006 to IRS Commissioner Everson from 47 state attorneys general stated. “There is simply too much at risk for American taxpayers particularly with respect to the ongoing scourge of identity theft to increase the likelihood that their most personal information will be stolen or misused.” Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as well Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and other members of Congress plan on introducing legislation which would ban the sale of tax return information to third party companies should the new rules be approved. But the law is thus far silent on the offshoring of tax preparation in the future for those filers who prepare their returns themselves. What does remain clear however are the uncertainties with controlling information once taxpayers give consent to either allow their information to be sold to data brokers marketers or financial institutions or any third party on the open market without limitation and/or be offshored. More importantly in the long term is whether the public trust in the sanctity of the U. S income tax system will suffer and be irrevocably lost. Diane M. Grassi is a freelance columnist reporting and writing commentary on current events of the day providing honest and often politically incorrect assessments. From U. S public policy to Major League Baseball she is an eclectic thinker and demanding of her readers to reflect on their own thinking patterns from an alternative perspective. Whether you agree with her or not. Diane M. Grassi will have you coming back to note her opinions and if at best she wakes you up then her goal will have been accomplished. Ms. Grassi is featured with the online publications: New Media Journal us; American Chronicle; Mich News com; the Federal Observer; Opinions Editorials; the Conservative Voice; the Las Vegas Penny Press; the Sierra Times as well as many others. She also writes regular columns on Major League Baseball where she is a featured online columnist with The Diamond Angle Baseball Ezine and Sports-Central org. Ms. Grassi may contacted at:

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The date of April 15th is a date not necessarily fondly referred to by a good many Americans because it is representative of more anxiety than delight. Nor does the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) elicit terms of endearment even for those who might enjoy an income tax refund upon filing their tax returns each year. But it is specifically the preparation of tax filing which has become ever more complex over the years which continues to lead many filers to third party tax preparers such as accounting firms and tax preparation services. In order to adequately abide by requirements in the convoluted IRS Code trust has been extended to tax professionals by many taxpayers in order to avoid the risk of mistakes being made. Also of concern to taxpayers is not only that their income tax preparation be filed correctly and lawfully but that the handling of filers’ most sacred and valuable information is protected from theft misuse or abuse. Therefore the latest proposed changes to the IRS Code as published in the Federal Register on December 8. 2005 has rallied consumer protection advocates and members of the United States Congress to take issue with such change to Section 7216-3 of the IRS Code. But the recommended changes only came to light to not only the public but to members of Congress just three weeks before a public hearing on these new rules at the offices of the IRS which took place on April 4. 2006. Unfortunately the period allowed for submitting public comments for the hearing was closed on March 8. 2006 at the same time that the proposed changes were discovered by consumer advocacy organizations and not lawmakers. Disconcerting is the way in which the proposed changes have been drafted and the arguably surreptitious way in which such changes were made as part of an overhaul of the Code not amended since 1974. Supposedly the redraft is an effort to modernize the Code with rules relevant to electronic business transmissions and the advent of technology since the 1970’s. The new language will require all taxpayers using a third party tax preparation service to specifically sign documentation which provides for the selling of tax information data to outside marketers database brokers or financial institutions. Further signed documentation would be required in order to allow such U. S tax preparer to offshore such tax work such as specifically to India. But the interpretation of the actual language in the new proposed Code including the risks in taxpayers unknowingly signing such papers unaware of their implications is what has raised doubts. Of concern is whether the taxpayer will be appropriately warned about what it is they are actually signing when overwhelmed by a bevy of papers to execute. According to IRS Commissioner. Mark Everson the proposed changes actually improve the safeguards of taxpayer information and are “not significant.” But upon closer examination they increase the chances of identity theft and fraud not only throughout the U. S but across the globe in India where prevention of security breaches rely largely on an honor code rather than dictated by law. Thus a U. S tax return far greater and detailed than any other personal financial document becomes ripe for the picking. Although the basis for the IRS proposed code changes is the use of electronic transmissions and new software technologies in the tax filing system selling information and offshoring tax preparation do not have a direct bearing upon the mechanics of tax filing. The IRS also argues that the 1974 Code or our present tax law already provides for tax preparers to profit off of a tax client’s information by selling it. But that information specifically refers to an “affiliated” company of the tax preparer only. With the new changes tax preparers would be permitted to sell tax information to any third party affiliated or not. However there is a “warning” printed on the consent form for third party permission which clearly states: “Once your tax return information is disclosed to a third party per your consent we have no control over what that third party does with your tax return information. If the third party uses or discloses your tax return information for purposes other than the purpose for which you authorized the disclosure under federal tax law we are not responsible for that subsequent use or disclosure and federal tax law may not protect you from that disclosure.” Thus any third party may sell such information to any other third party business without disclosure to the taxpayer nor any accountability on the part of the tax preparer or the IRS once initial consent is given. The term length of said consent would supposedly be limited to one year. But without accountability mechanisms in place unenforcement of the term will remain. How the IRS can argue that such new rule changes would allow for better privacy controls is dubious at best. With respect to privacy controls in India there is even less scrutiny as the arm of U. S law does not extend to any tax preparation in India nor any offshore locality. Steven Ladd. CEO of Copanion. Inc. and a Certified Public Accountant for over 25 years testified at the IRS Public Hearing on April 4th. He stated. “Security flaws in offshore tax preparation encourage cyber terrorism by those who would victimize every family in our country.” Ladd who operates an accounting firm in New Hampshire went to Bangalore. India in pursuit of offshoring his own tax preparation business in order to save on overall costs. After spending over 60 hours with several large and small firms there. Ladd was “Shocked at the lack of adequate security present at all of them.” He said. “Offshore tax preparers (including data entry workers accountants supervisors. IT staff consultants and owners can see the taxpayer’s name address. Social Security number date of birth phone number wages mutual fund broker bank and bank accounts with their routing numbers. It is the ultimate pot of gold for an identity thief. 1040’s are like an exposed wallet just waiting to be lifted by a career pickpocket." And Ladd specifically proposes adding a warning related to tax preparation outsourced outside of the U. S. Bankrate com a consumer magazine researched data brokers Choice Point and DocuSearch and the worth of various pieces of data contained in a U. S tax return: education history $12.00; credit history $9.00; worker’s compensation record $18.00; bankruptcy information $26.50; military record $35.00; Social Security number $8.00; date of birth $2.00; address $.50; phone number $.25. And how much other information will potentially be sold from a 1040 form has not been addressed. Not only does a taxpayer enjoy no compensation for the information advocacy organizations have further warnings. Non-trained tax preparers unfamiliar with the new rules or those who gain commission or remuneration for having clients sign off on allowing third party use and offshoring of their information may potentially exploit the taxpayer. A letter in March 2006 to IRS Commissioner Everson from 47 state attorneys general stated. “There is simply too much at risk for American taxpayers particularly with respect to the ongoing scourge of identity theft to increase the likelihood that their most personal information will be stolen or misused.” Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as well Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and other members of Congress plan on introducing legislation which would ban the sale of tax return information to third party companies should the new rules be approved. But the law is thus far silent on the offshoring of tax preparation in the future for those filers who prepare their returns themselves. What does remain clear however are the uncertainties with controlling information once taxpayers give consent to either allow their information to be sold to data brokers marketers or financial institutions or any third party on the open market without limitation and/or be offshored. More importantly in the long term is whether the public trust in the sanctity of the U. S income tax system will suffer and be irrevocably lost. Diane M. Grassi is a freelance columnist reporting and writing commentary on current events of the day providing honest and often politically incorrect assessments. From U. S public policy to Major League Baseball she is an eclectic thinker and demanding of her readers to reflect on their own thinking patterns from an alternative perspective. Whether you agree with her or not. Diane M. Grassi will have you coming back to note her opinions and if at best she wakes you up then her goal will have been accomplished. Ms. Grassi is featured with the online publications: New Media Journal us; American Chronicle; Mich News com; the Federal Observer; Opinions Editorials; the Conservative Voice; the Las Vegas Penny Press; the Sierra Times as well as many others. She also writes regular columns on Major League Baseball where she is a featured online columnist with The Diamond Angle Baseball Ezine and Sports-Central org. Ms. Grassi may contacted at:

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The date of April 15th is a date not necessarily fondly referred to by a good many Americans because it is representative of more anxiety than delight. Nor does the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) elicit terms of endearment even for those who might enjoy an income tax refund upon filing their tax returns each year. But it is specifically the preparation of tax filing which has become ever more complex over the years which continues to lead many filers to third party tax preparers such as accounting firms and tax preparation services. In order to adequately abide by requirements in the convoluted IRS Code trust has been extended to tax professionals by many taxpayers in order to avoid the risk of mistakes being made. Also of concern to taxpayers is not only that their income tax preparation be filed correctly and lawfully but that the handling of filers’ most sacred and valuable information is protected from theft misuse or abuse. Therefore the latest proposed changes to the IRS Code as published in the Federal Register on December 8. 2005 has rallied consumer protection advocates and members of the United States Congress to take issue with such change to Section 7216-3 of the IRS Code. But the recommended changes only came to light to not only the public but to members of Congress just three weeks before a public hearing on these new rules at the offices of the IRS which took place on April 4. 2006. Unfortunately the period allowed for submitting public comments for the hearing was closed on March 8. 2006 at the same time that the proposed changes were discovered by consumer advocacy organizations and not lawmakers. Disconcerting is the way in which the proposed changes have been drafted and the arguably surreptitious way in which such changes were made as part of an overhaul of the Code not amended since 1974. Supposedly the redraft is an effort to modernize the Code with rules relevant to electronic business transmissions and the advent of technology since the 1970’s. The new language will require all taxpayers using a third party tax preparation service to specifically sign documentation which provides for the selling of tax information data to outside marketers database brokers or financial institutions. Further signed documentation would be required in order to allow such U. S tax preparer to offshore such tax work such as specifically to India. But the interpretation of the actual language in the new proposed Code including the risks in taxpayers unknowingly signing such papers unaware of their implications is what has raised doubts. Of concern is whether the taxpayer will be appropriately warned about what it is they are actually signing when overwhelmed by a bevy of papers to execute. According to IRS Commissioner. Mark Everson the proposed changes actually improve the safeguards of taxpayer information and are “not significant.” But upon closer examination they increase the chances of identity theft and fraud not only throughout the U. S but across the globe in India where prevention of security breaches rely largely on an honor code rather than dictated by law. Thus a U. S tax return far greater and detailed than any other personal financial document becomes ripe for the picking. Although the basis for the IRS proposed code changes is the use of electronic transmissions and new software technologies in the tax filing system selling information and offshoring tax preparation do not have a direct bearing upon the mechanics of tax filing. The IRS also argues that the 1974 Code or our present tax law already provides for tax preparers to profit off of a tax client’s information by selling it. But that information specifically refers to an “affiliated” company of the tax preparer only. With the new changes tax preparers would be permitted to sell tax information to any third party affiliated or not. However there is a “warning” printed on the consent form for third party permission which clearly states: “Once your tax return information is disclosed to a third party per your consent we have no control over what that third party does with your tax return information. If the third party uses or discloses your tax return information for purposes other than the purpose for which you authorized the disclosure under federal tax law we are not responsible for that subsequent use or disclosure and federal tax law may not protect you from that disclosure.” Thus any third party may sell such information to any other third party business without disclosure to the taxpayer nor any accountability on the part of the tax preparer or the IRS once initial consent is given. The term length of said consent would supposedly be limited to one year. But without accountability mechanisms in place unenforcement of the term will remain. How the IRS can argue that such new rule changes would allow for better privacy controls is dubious at best. With respect to privacy controls in India there is even less scrutiny as the arm of U. S law does not extend to any tax preparation in India nor any offshore locality. Steven Ladd. CEO of Copanion. Inc. and a Certified Public Accountant for over 25 years testified at the IRS Public Hearing on April 4th. He stated. “Security flaws in offshore tax preparation encourage cyber terrorism by those who would victimize every family in our country.” Ladd who operates an accounting firm in New Hampshire went to Bangalore. India in pursuit of offshoring his own tax preparation business in order to save on overall costs. After spending over 60 hours with several large and small firms there. Ladd was “Shocked at the lack of adequate security present at all of them.” He said. “Offshore tax preparers (including data entry workers accountants supervisors. IT staff consultants and owners can see the taxpayer’s name address. Social Security number date of birth phone number wages mutual fund broker bank and bank accounts with their routing numbers. It is the ultimate pot of gold for an identity thief. 1040’s are like an exposed wallet just waiting to be lifted by a career pickpocket." And Ladd specifically proposes adding a warning related to tax preparation outsourced outside of the U. S. Bankrate com a consumer magazine researched data brokers Choice Point and DocuSearch and the worth of various pieces of data contained in a U. S tax return: education history $12.00; credit history $9.00; worker’s compensation record $18.00; bankruptcy information $26.50; military record $35.00; Social Security number $8.00; date of birth $2.00; address $.50; phone number $.25. And how much other information will potentially be sold from a 1040 form has not been addressed. Not only does a taxpayer enjoy no compensation for the information advocacy organizations have further warnings. Non-trained tax preparers unfamiliar with the new rules or those who gain commission or remuneration for having clients sign off on allowing third party use and offshoring of their information may potentially exploit the taxpayer. A letter in March 2006 to IRS Commissioner Everson from 47 state attorneys general stated. “There is simply too much at risk for American taxpayers particularly with respect to the ongoing scourge of identity theft to increase the likelihood that their most personal information will be stolen or misused.” Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as well Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and other members of Congress plan on introducing legislation which would ban the sale of tax return information to third party companies should the new rules be approved. But the law is thus far silent on the offshoring of tax preparation in the future for those filers who prepare their returns themselves. What does remain clear however are the uncertainties with controlling information once taxpayers give consent to either allow their information to be sold to data brokers marketers or financial institutions or any third party on the open market without limitation and/or be offshored. More importantly in the long term is whether the public trust in the sanctity of the U. S income tax system will suffer and be irrevocably lost. Diane M. Grassi is a freelance columnist reporting and writing commentary on current events of the day providing honest and often politically incorrect assessments. From U. S public policy to Major League Baseball she is an eclectic thinker and demanding of her readers to reflect on their own thinking patterns from an alternative perspective. Whether you agree with her or not. Diane M. Grassi will have you coming back to note her opinions and if at best she wakes you up then her goal will have been accomplished. Ms. Grassi is featured with the online publications: New Media Journal us; American Chronicle; Mich News com; the Federal Observer; Opinions Editorials; the Conservative Voice; the Las Vegas Penny Press; the Sierra Times as well as many others. She also writes regular columns on Major League Baseball where she is a featured online columnist with The Diamond Angle Baseball Ezine and Sports-Central org. Ms. Grassi may contacted at:

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The date of April 15th is a date not necessarily fondly referred to by a good many Americans because it is representative of more anxiety than delight. Nor does the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) elicit terms of endearment even for those who might enjoy an income tax refund upon filing their tax returns each year. But it is specifically the preparation of tax filing which has become ever more complex over the years which continues to lead many filers to third party tax preparers such as accounting firms and tax preparation services. In order to adequately abide by requirements in the convoluted IRS Code trust has been extended to tax professionals by many taxpayers in order to avoid the risk of mistakes being made. Also of concern to taxpayers is not only that their income tax preparation be filed correctly and lawfully but that the handling of filers’ most sacred and valuable information is protected from theft misuse or abuse. Therefore the latest proposed changes to the IRS Code as published in the Federal Register on December 8. 2005 has rallied consumer protection advocates and members of the United States Congress to take issue with such change to Section 7216-3 of the IRS Code. But the recommended changes only came to light to not only the public but to members of Congress just three weeks before a public hearing on these new rules at the offices of the IRS which took place on April 4. 2006. Unfortunately the period allowed for submitting public comments for the hearing was closed on March 8. 2006 at the same time that the proposed changes were discovered by consumer advocacy organizations and not lawmakers. Disconcerting is the way in which the proposed changes have been drafted and the arguably surreptitious way in which such changes were made as part of an overhaul of the Code not amended since 1974. Supposedly the redraft is an effort to modernize the Code with rules relevant to electronic business transmissions and the advent of technology since the 1970’s. The new language will require all taxpayers using a third party tax preparation service to specifically sign documentation which provides for the selling of tax information data to outside marketers database brokers or financial institutions. Further signed documentation would be required in order to allow such U. S tax preparer to offshore such tax work such as specifically to India. But the interpretation of the actual language in the new proposed Code including the risks in taxpayers unknowingly signing such papers unaware of their implications is what has raised doubts. Of concern is whether the taxpayer will be appropriately warned about what it is they are actually signing when overwhelmed by a bevy of papers to execute. According to IRS Commissioner. Mark Everson the proposed changes actually improve the safeguards of taxpayer information and are “not significant.” But upon closer examination they increase the chances of identity theft and fraud not only throughout the U. S but across the globe in India where prevention of security breaches rely largely on an honor code rather than dictated by law. Thus a U. S tax return far greater and detailed than any other personal financial document becomes ripe for the picking. Although the basis for the IRS proposed code changes is the use of electronic transmissions and new software technologies in the tax filing system selling information and offshoring tax preparation do not have a direct bearing upon the mechanics of tax filing. The IRS also argues that the 1974 Code or our present tax law already provides for tax preparers to profit off of a tax client’s information by selling it. But that information specifically refers to an “affiliated” company of the tax preparer only. With the new changes tax preparers would be permitted to sell tax information to any third party affiliated or not. However there is a “warning” printed on the consent form for third party permission which clearly states: “Once your tax return information is disclosed to a third party per your consent we have no control over what that third party does with your tax return information. If the third party uses or discloses your tax return information for purposes other than the purpose for which you authorized the disclosure under federal tax law we are not responsible for that subsequent use or disclosure and federal tax law may not protect you from that disclosure.” Thus any third party may sell such information to any other third party business without disclosure to the taxpayer nor any accountability on the part of the tax preparer or the IRS once initial consent is given. The term length of said consent would supposedly be limited to one year. But without accountability mechanisms in place unenforcement of the term will remain. How the IRS can argue that such new rule changes would allow for better privacy controls is dubious at best. With respect to privacy controls in India there is even less scrutiny as the arm of U. S law does not extend to any tax preparation in India nor any offshore locality. Steven Ladd. CEO of Copanion. Inc. and a Certified Public Accountant for over 25 years testified at the IRS Public Hearing on April 4th. He stated. “Security flaws in offshore tax preparation encourage cyber terrorism by those who would victimize every family in our country.” Ladd who operates an accounting firm in New Hampshire went to Bangalore. India in pursuit of offshoring his own tax preparation business in order to save on overall costs. After spending over 60 hours with several large and small firms there. Ladd was “Shocked at the lack of adequate security present at all of them.” He said. “Offshore tax preparers (including data entry workers accountants supervisors. IT staff consultants and owners can see the taxpayer’s name address. Social Security number date of birth phone number wages mutual fund broker bank and bank accounts with their routing numbers. It is the ultimate pot of gold for an identity thief. 1040’s are like an exposed wallet just waiting to be lifted by a career pickpocket." And Ladd specifically proposes adding a warning related to tax preparation outsourced outside of the U. S. Bankrate com a consumer magazine researched data brokers Choice Point and DocuSearch and the worth of various pieces of data contained in a U. S tax return: education history $12.00; credit history $9.00; worker’s compensation record $18.00; bankruptcy information $26.50; military record $35.00; Social Security number $8.00; date of birth $2.00; address $.50; phone number $.25. And how much other information will potentially be sold from a 1040 form has not been addressed. Not only does a taxpayer enjoy no compensation for the information advocacy organizations have further warnings. Non-trained tax preparers unfamiliar with the new rules or those who gain commission or remuneration for having clients sign off on allowing third party use and offshoring of their information may potentially exploit the taxpayer. A letter in March 2006 to IRS Commissioner Everson from 47 state attorneys general stated. “There is simply too much at risk for American taxpayers particularly with respect to the ongoing scourge of identity theft to increase the likelihood that their most personal information will be stolen or misused.” Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) as well Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) and other members of Congress plan on introducing legislation which would ban the sale of tax return information to third party companies should the new rules be approved. But the law is thus far silent on the offshoring of tax preparation in the future for those filers who prepare their returns themselves. What does remain clear however are the uncertainties with controlling information once taxpayers give consent to either allow their information to be sold to data brokers marketers or financial institutions or any third party on the open market without limitation and/or be offshored. More importantly in the long term is whether the public trust in the sanctity of the U. S income tax system will suffer and be irrevocably lost. Diane M. Grassi is a freelance columnist reporting and writing commentary on current events of the day providing honest and often politically incorrect assessments. From U. S public policy to Major League Baseball she is an eclectic thinker and demanding of her readers to reflect on their own thinking patterns from an alternative perspective. Whether you agree with her or not. Diane M. 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create by mental act for a moment just what would come about if any express in this country suddenly threw out all labor standards – the minimum contend the right to create workers the 40-hour bring home the bacon week. And imagine what would happen if the EPA allowed them to ignore all environmental laws – if they could dump waste anywhere they wanted if they could pollute the air with greenhouse gasses at unchecked levels. Every factory owner in the country would move their operations there leaving workers in the rest of the states without a good paying job and without a way to provide for their families. In our global economy moving jobs off border is just as easy as moving them to another express. We can’t let that happen. We also can’t believe that once George Bush is out of office that the next Republican president – whoever or whenever it may be – will insist on enforceable standards when negotiating agreements. So we absolutely MUST resist any attempt to furnish this and future Presidents abstain track change authority without Congressional oversight. We be in a global economy and we can’t ignore that fact. If we accept that we can’t turn back the clock and stop globalization we can set our sights on reasonable goals desire doing more to back up workers and communities get the training and education they need to compete in our new global economy. We can act steps here at home to make sure all corporations are pitching in with their fair overlap by reforming the tax code to stop companies from setting up tax shelters in Bermuda in request to forbid paying their bring together share in taxes. Gordon Smith continually supports allowing companies to furnish their assets in offshore accounts rather than making them pay their bring together overlap like the rest of us do.

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In inspect you hadn't noticed this communicate is my entirely personal and eclectic believe of the world. Organisations I be to disown me and every evince of this thing - long before the cant crows. I communicate what I want and I blogit when when I be. I rarely delete comments and ordain generally displace corrections and observations prominently on request. This time and every measure.. it's personal. Grrrr bloody Blogger's just dumped a mention of exploit over at. Very discerning you say Iain? Not at all sir. I was supporting Iain's thesis in this case.. as he ripped into Lib Dems over the Michael Brown donation of £2.4 million.. to a inform. comfort never object that now. Blogger has spoken and it was a write from on high so let's leave the poor LDs alone for a moment. At Iain's an has written: "His (Ashcroft's) only Achilles' heel is his status here" That's hilarious. I've corrected the spelling and punctuation. But I've left the tautology. The thing about Achilles' heels is that one is enough innit? And actually Lord Offshore has a pair of them or three and he's shown us them and they're not clean those heels of his. Perhaps he's not been watching where he's been standing? helping the nation's political life only to get ennobled. Being repeatedly thought an alter person to be a law maker here if he lived in tax aboidance arrive he promised to act to the UK for tax purposes. According to vague Hague he would pay many millions in personal tax here. But that does not seem to have happened now does it? Is he even registered to vote from a UK address?2. Clearly his agent company (What's with the zoo ennoble Michael? Not out of the bear woods yet conjoin but do watch where you go. See first comment) is not showing much signs of doing anything else than funding Tories and I'm not really sure how that can cater the rules as a permissible donor. If that's good enough then Michael cook writing a cheque for the Libs here should also be enough. But it wasn't. And clearly shouldn't be.3. Clearly Flying Lion are by misusing the "jaunt" loophole in PPERA. When Dave quite unreasonably questions's Gord's integrity he needs to go away with more of a self examination. Tories have not been altogether truthful it seems in venturing the cost of their jet setting to the proper authorities. This surely indicates a fear that the donations ordain be clawed approve and that by pretending they be 2/6 they will save 100s of 000s of pounds? Or else it's an act at massaging drink the 12 month rolling campaign costs evaluate? There is a considerable difference between an individual giving another money to furnish to a political celebrate - the intermediary acting as an agent - and someone causing a company they own to furnish affiliate money to a political party. In the second inspect the company is the donor and has to obey with fairly strict legal requirements for approval of the donation. The problem with trying to equate the two is that it ignores the reality that the company has a displace legal personality but that it acts by direction from directors and shareholders. Provided that company law requirements undergo been followed - there is no difficulty. Everyone has find to the relevant affiliate records at Companies accommodate and can see who the directors etc are - subject to the rules on smaller companies (changed by GB!). As to the donation by individuals through what could be called 'secret agency' - this is expressly prohibited under the law passed by do work and it is odd that they seem to get caught out by their own law - again. For reasons already explained. I don't think that your continued accusation about the Flying Lion stuff is sustained. I speculate you could always employ a lawyer to Judicially review the decision of the Electoral equip or the Committee for Standards (writing that down does make it sound Stalinist) ... As to Michael Ashcroft's status - as with anyone tax status is a matter for him. I accept that he told the appointments body that he would change his status if appointed to the Lords - and for all we know he has done so. He won't say - the Revenue cannot tell anyone (although it could always get lost in the post. I suppose) - to be a donor he would undergo to conform to the law and for that. I believe he would be to be registered to vote. Of course registration for voting and tax status are not the same thing and they never have been... I am not suggesting any equivalence Ewan. But I think :(1) Ashcroft gained a peerage following millions in donations to Tories and with (i) no other great cerebrate why he should be ennobled and (ii) on challenge after being rejected at least twice. He was ennobled ON THE BASIS of a promise that he would come on shore and pay personal tax here and of course be registered to vote here - that is an absolute requirement object in the matter of "travel". There is no visible sign that he has done this (a) at all or (b) in the time close in required. In the interests of transparency all this should be out in the change state should it not?(2) Do bears shit in the woods? Does Bearwood Securities trade in the UK in anything other than a contrived way and in dolling out vast donations? If not is that good enough? The suggestion which others undergo been making is that if Michael's UK status is pretty uncertain and the company he is using as an agent is an hilarious joke about bears and woods with little other activity then that stinks like a bear pit.3. I'm not aware that the Flying Lion cram has been tested legally in any real way. Tory blogs saying it's book don't ascertain. A judicial review would be premature without something other than a summary shufty or less surely?Perhaps you would at least agree with me that the intended purpose of the loophole on travel i e travel relevant to the donor's and the recipients legitimate interests is not the intend to which it is being put?And that such spirit-contrary if not letter-contrary use should be closed down?And that the values put on the jaunt are just plain silly? EvanI evaluate you are wrong legally - the divide of PPERA which talks about donors and agents refers to "persons" and not "individuals" - and legally companies are "persons" - so it is quite possible for them to act as "agents". In the inspect of Ashcroft he himself talks about "my donations" - see his recent Telegraph bind - yet he has never made a donation to the Conservative celebrate in his own label - which is a pretty good indication that he thinks Bearwood his is agent. All the capital of Bearwood Securities appears to be provided by Ashcroft companies and there is no indication that it has any business in the UK (or anywhere else for that matter) other than giving to the Tories (is that a business) All of which are advance indicators that Bearwood Securities is Ashcroft's agent rather than an independent donor in its own rights. It is worth looking at the email which was sent to Peter Watts and the other parties and it makes clear that "agents" should not be used for the purpose of either hiding donors identity (which Ashcroft hasn't done to be bring together to him) or to alter otherwise impermissible donations - the question is not really about Ashcroft's tax status but whether he is on the UK Electoral Register and hence a permissible donor. I am afraid I have never seen any record of Ashcroft ever answering this challenge. You do be to ask the question as to why he is using Bearwood for his donations?I accept with you that there is little question about whether Flying Lion is a permissible.

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for a year from prior to him becoming a section buyer with the in. After a brief spell with A. Goldberg & Son he was appointed in as a research and information officer with the. He contested the seat of for the at the but the sitting MP won with a majority of 2,551. Malcolm Bruce was elected as the Vice Chairman of the in in the same year he became a director with the Norboil Publishing House. He again stood for at the for the seat of and was again defeated by a sitting Conservative and Unionist MP this measure in the shape of by 2,766 votes. Bruce became the editor of the in until his election. Bruce stood for parliament for a third measure at the newly created lay of based largely on the former Aberdeenshire West. Fairgrieve retired and at the he was very narrowly elected and became the Liberal MP for Gordon with a majority of just 850 and has held the seat for more than twenty years. When he was elected to parliament. Malcolm Bruce served on the and in was given a job by as a Spokesman on Energy and Scotland. He also became in 1986 for three years. After the at which Bruce's majority had increased to 9,519 he was briefly a spokesman on before speaking on later in. After the amalgamation of the Liberal Party and the and the formation of the Liberal Democrats he became the new celebrate's Energy spokesman and at the same time became the Leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats under the new leadership of. In he was appointed as the spokesman before having the Scotland portfolio after. After the at which he narrowly held Gordon by just 274 votes he again became the change and Industry spokesman. By he had change state the spokesman. He was at the in. At the Malcolm Bruce's majority had risen again to 6,997. The Liberal Democrats had 46 MPs more than they have had since before the 1920s. Paddy Ashdown created a new system and Bruce became the Liberal Democrat Shadow. When Ashdown stood down in he contested the leadership of the celebrate but came in third displace. In 1999 under the new leadership of became the Chairman of the Liberal Democrats until and since has been the president of the Scottish Liberal Democrats. Malcolm Bruce won Gordon for the fifth consecutive time at the with a still rising majority of 7,879. Following his re-election. Bruce became the Liberal Democrat follow and the follow in. He stood down from the frontbench following the where he was re-elected with his highest majority yet at 11,026. He is currently the head of the. He was made a on. Whilst a Treasury spokesman it was Malcolm Bruce who developed the idea of a 'penny on income tax'. He is politically he is an outspoken opponent of with the. He married Veronica Jane Wilson in and they undergo a son and a daughter but they d in and Bruce remarried in to Rosemary Vetterlein herself a Liberal Democrat politician having unsuccessfully contested the in they undergo two daughters and a son together. He takes a express emotion interest in issues (one of his children is desensitise).

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