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Tracking Your Taxes

Posted by samzenpus on from the tax-spam dept.

CTealL writes "Apparently Intuit thinks it's okay to share information about taxes with third paries. According to this article, Intuit is using a third party tracking technology on all tax forms submitted to the IRS. "We could capture your name, your Social Security number or any other information that you willingly pass to a Web site," acknowledged Matt Belkin, who serves as vice president of best practices for Utah marketing giant Omniture, which tracks the online activities of people using Intuit's TurboTax. The IRS disavows any knowledge of this, saying "The IRS does not take a position on Web tracking tools." Makes you wonder where your tax information is going..."

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  1. This is exactly why... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ... I don't pay income taxes. Well, this reason and that I discovered I didn't owe them anything because I had no liability!

    http://www.supremelaw.org/sls/31answers.htm

    Ahhh, ye doubters, mod me to oblivion again. I posted anonomously because my account can't take the abuse from people trying to conceal the truth. Debate the facts! Don't just silence people you disagree with. Show me where you think the law is, and I'll show you why it's all smokescreen and no substance.

    I'm dead serious

  2. Re:The moral of the story: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Maybe, but its America that has a culture and tradition of glorifying greed, might is right, grab it all for yourself, personality that is America. Sadly it infects the world with the idea that this sort of behaviour is normal or even good. Fools always drawn down to the lowest common behavioural norms. No thanks America we can find a better path without you.