The Joint Committee on Taxation today released Disclosure Report for Public Inspection Pursuant to Internal Revenue Code Section 6103(p)(3)(C) for Calendar Year 2008 (JCX-24-09):
Section 6103(p)(3)(C) of the Internal Revenue Code provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall, within 90 days after the close of each calendar year, furnish to the Joint Committee on Taxation for disclosure to the public a report which provides with respect to each Federal agency and certain other entities the number of: (1) requests for disclosure of returns and return information (as such terms are defined in section 6103(b)); (2) instances in which returns and return information were disclosed pursuant to such requests or otherwise; and (3) taxpayers whose returns, or return information with respect to whom, were disclosed pursuant to such requests. In addition, the report must describe the general purposes for which such requests were made.
Pursuant to section 6103(p)(3)(C), the Internal Revenue Service prepared a disclosure report for public inspection covering calendar year 2008. This document sets forth the report of the IRS.
The report reveals that the IRS made 5.3 billion disclosures of tax return information to federal and state agencies (up from 4.5 billion in 2007). Here are the Top 5 recipients of taxpayer information:
- States: 3,182,927,345 disclosures
- Bureau of Census: 1,842,087,625 disclosures
- Congressional Committees: 260,592,773 disclosures
- Medicare Premium Subsidy Adjustment: 40,431,964 disclosures
- Child Support Enforcement Agencies: 14,856,897 disclosures
