I did mine the old fashioned way, via paper and mail. Probably more secure than Hitlery’s emails.
That is an understatement.
All electronic returns continue to exist "in the cloud".
The IRS encourages non-citizen, alien immigrants, to file even though they know of stolen identity.
By complying with a known insecure governmental aggregate identification system of taxation, are we now complicit in the illegal perpetuation of identity theft of lawful citizens ?
What happened to the "Rule of Law" under which we are governed, when the government encourages illegal behavior, especially in an known insecure system ?
The author states that he doesn’t have an answer.
I do.
Go to a national sales tax.
Permanently eliminate all income taxes.
Returns are not secure. Too many criminals in the IRS are selling the necessary information to their cohorts on the outside to file fraudulent returns. I had mine stolen and it took more than 2 years to get a PIN number so I could file a return.
OPM gave away the records for 100M people. Va got hacked. Anthem Blue Cross got hacked. Yahoo got hacked. NSA can hack anyone. NO ONE IS SAFE
One simple method to reduce the fraud is paper returns with the local zip code on a mail receipt. This means more work for the IRS and would cut the fraud significantly.
One simple method to reduce the fraud is paper returns with the local zip code on a mail receipt. This means more work for the IRS and would cut the fraud significantly.
If - and it’s a big if - the government was really “for the people” there would be no income tax. “We the people” surrender way too much private, personal information to the IRS. If - there’s that if again - our government really wanted to do what’s fair and just, the income tax system would be replaced in its entirety by a retail sales tax. Then, no personal, private information would need to be collected on citizens. The myriad complications associated with an income tax would simply disappear. But I’m afraid that our government and our politicians are much too corrupt to ever implement such a reasonable system. And, of course, there’s all those damned lawyers.
Any electronic communication can be hacked. There is no security in online communication that even approaches a mechanical door lock. And locks only keep honest people out, as we are often told.
To hack your door lock, the hacker has to have physical access to the lock, your electronic comms can be accessed from anywhere in the world, by anyone.
My concern is getting them done, not who might read them. Personally, we should simplify them and everyone’s should be public and offer reward for false returns. Heck, if we are all going to pay taxes, make it transparent.
Oh, wait. That was already suggested 2000 years ago...
Illegals chuckle
Bfl
Actually, when I now file with TAXact, it now requires two-factor authentication. Now only with a very complex password, but also a one-time use six-digit number sent by text messaging to a cellphone. That makes TAXact vastly more sucure than before.
Bump