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And so far Intuit has lined up eight financial organizations that plan to make their taxpayer data available over the Internet.
Still, a 2009 report by the Government Accountability Office found that there were "vulnerabilities in the security system used by the I.R.S. to protect taxpayer data".
Julian Huppert, a Lib Dem member of the Commons home affairs committee, said HMRC would "seriously undermine the confidentiality we expect" if it proceeded with the proposal to relax restrictions on sharing taxpayer data and potentially selling it to private firms.
In 15 of those cases, IRS employees intentionally accessed taxpayer data without authorization.
Just this week, the IRS put out a report saying they weren't properly collecting cybersecurity logs for the past 20 months, meaning taxpayer data could have (or may have) been hacked over the Internet. .
"Regrettably, the CRA has been notified by the Government of Canada's lead security agencies of a malicious breach of taxpayer data that occurred over a six-hour period," the agency said on a message posted to its homepage.
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As this paper reported last week, ministers are considering changes in the law which would allow HM Revenue & Customs HMRCC) to sell taxpayers' data to third parties.
Under an automatic exchange, governments would routinely transfer all foreign taxpayers' data to their home governments, making it far more difficult to hide assets from the tax collector.
Some free schools catering for children with behavioural difficulties have received hundreds of thousands of pounds per pupil from the taxpayer, government data has revealed.
Although the top four hundred taxpayers account for only a sliver of all taxpayers, I.R.S. data show that they collect almost five per cent of total dividend income reported by all taxpayers.
Local government has emerged as a major obstacle to setting taxpayer-funded data free for reuse.
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