Tuesday, April 27, 2004
The IRS recently published its annual report on the number of times it discloses individual income tax return information. For 2003, the IRS disclosed this information 3.7 billion times. Since only 125 million tax returns are filed each year, that works out to 30 disclosures per return. (The 2003 figures represent a reduction from the 4.1 billion disclosures of individual tax return information in 2002.) Jim Maule (Villanova) has a nice discussion on his blog of the issues raised by these disclosures.
