Wave Bye-bye to Your Privacy, Thanks IRS

Why isn't this getting more coverage? This represents a sea change in IRS policy.

IRS plan would allow sale of tax data to marketers

PHILADELPHIA -- The Internal Revenue Service is quietly moving to loosen the once-inviolable privacy of federal income-tax returns.

If it succeeds, accountants and other tax-return preparers for the first time would be able to sell information from individual returns -- or even entire returns -- to marketers and data brokers.

The change is in a set of proposed rules the Treasury Department and the IRS published in the Dec. 8 Federal Register, where the official notice labeled them "not a significant regulatory action."

The italics are mine.

Not a significant regulatory action?

Really?

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