[Cboldt]

Tax privacy is a statutory matter, not a constitutional (4th amendment) one. Or at least, that's what history tells us.

Report-Taxpayer-Confidentiality-2010 - U.S. Treasurey Department

History starts on p15.

Google search: federal income tax returns - confidentiality vs. public disclosure

First hit should be a Yale Law School Law Review article by Boris Bittker.

Your property tax is a public record.

[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Thanks for the reply. I can understand that property tax has been treated differently from income tax. But I think the Founding Fathers would feel betrayed by the government’s efforts to chip away at the 4th amendment. And it’s getting worse unless we start pushing back.