Posted on 12/08/2013 6:44:38 AM PST by BenLurkin
In formal guidance issued to IRS agents inspecting historical conservation sites, however, Google Maps and the online real estate database Zillow are mentioned as tools to help determine whether a property meets the regulatory requirements necessary to receive charitable contributions.
In addition to using freely available aerial and street photographs to survey property, agents are also encouraged to use search engines to research background information on suspected tax cheats.
“The Internet (using Google or other similar search engine) can be an excellent source of background information relevant to the taxpayer, done organization and appraiser,” states the agency’s manual.
The guidance, which is posted publicly online at the IRS’s website, was last revised on Jan. 3, 2012. An agency manual, effective Oct. 1, 2013, also lists Google, Google Maps, and a number of other Internet search tools to help agents spy on taxpayers.
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While making it easier for them, it is really no difference then driving pass (or even fly over) the property and taking photos, or going to the court house and looking up records. They could also go to the library and look up old newspaper articles.
Again, nothing new in any of this. The difference is that computers and sites like Google make it easier.
What scares me is Obamacare. If allowed to continue there will be one central database on every man woman and child in America (unless you are an illegal alien or a terrorist).
When I first read 1984 I did not think it was possible because technology did not exist. Today that technology exist and for the most part we are paying for it ourselves.
“information relevant to the taxpayer, done organization and appraiser”
Translation?
They done with that.
Being a Democrat means never having to acknowledge the consequences of anything.
It's new school. Written by new hires to the only sector that is adding jobs - the public sector.
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