Re: IRS vs. privacy

[Julietta <albright@scf.usc.edu>]

> 
> There was a neat piece on NPR Friday about why it's a bad idea
> to evade filing Federal tax returns.  Among the spine-tingling
> techniques used to pinpoint tax cheats:
> 
> *	[This blew my socks off] The IRS has subscription data
> 	for many national magazines.  Thus, if they know you're
> 	getting Time & Newsweek & Barron's and USNews but they
> 	see no tax return, they nab you.

hahah!
Maybe this is another reason not to let Safeway get you in their database-
I guess the IRS wouldn't quite believe you not filing a tax return if they
were to see you buying bottles of Dom Perignon champagne!! Big Brother
truly *is* watching you, I guess!!

-- Julie
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Julie M. Albright          "Passions elevate the soul to great things"
Ph.D Student
Department of Sociology
University of Southern California
albright@usc.edu               * * * Fight Big Brother- Oppose Clipper * *
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Julie M. Albright          "Passions elevate the soul to great things"
Ph.D Student
Department of Sociology
University of Southern California
albright@usc.edu               * * * Fight Big Brother- Oppose Clipper * *
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