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In reply to the discussion: Dems have Romney's tax returns. [View all]Democrat 4 Ever
(3,941 posts)about family, friends, neighbors, old addresses, school chums, past co-workers, they crawl up into your butte and you feel like you have had a lower GI exam by the time they let you go to work. And then you work ONLY on cases that your are assigned - never assigned a case if there is a possibility you MIGHT know them. Period. Co-worker looked up her baby sitter's social security number and was fired. She is now fighting criminal charges to stay out of jail. They don't mess around. Are there people who try to pull this stuff? Probably, I have no idea if they are actually successful or not but I would bet most anything I've got that the leak didn't come from the IRS.
And the secrecy from the public, nowhere on the form does it say this is private and confidential and cannot be shared. People hand over their returns all the time to bankers, accountants and news corps if they are pushed into a corner. They sign the jurat and swear and attest under threat of perjury that the return is true and accurate, but secret? Nope.