Maybe they could hire at least one person who'd
know doing this is fuckin' stupid...
The Internal Revenue Service on Friday acknowledged it mistakenly published confidential information about 120,000 taxpayers on its website.
The compromised data — including names, contact information, and financial information about IRA income — came from Form 990-T, according to the Wall Street Journal. The form is a tax-return document that is required for people with individual retirement accounts who earn certain types of business income within those retirement plans, such as IRAs invested in master limited partnerships, real estate, or other assets that generate income.
The exposed data did not include Social Security numbers, full individual income information, detailed financial account data, or other information that could impact a taxpayer’s credit. The IRS plans to contact all of the individuals who were affected.
The information was uploaded due to a human coding error that occurred last year when the form began to be electronically filed, officials said. While the forms for individuals are supposed to be confidential, charities with “unrelated business income” are also required to file Form 990-T, and those are intended to be public.
The confidential data was mistakenly uploaded with the public data to the agency’s website.
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Based on Biden's speech from the other night, the 87,000 new IRS hirings will be used to man the reeducation camps. They hired them under the IRS just to nest them into a single agency for pay purposes.
ReplyDeleteLooks like Lois Lerner has come out of retirement.
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