IRS admits to exposing confidential taxpayer information on website

guest · Sep 2, 2022

by Nihal Krishan @NihalKrishan - September 2, 2022

The Internal Revenue Service accidentally publicized confidential information that usually involves about 120,000 taxpayers earlier this year before finding the error and removing the sensitive data from its website, the agency said Friday.

The individual data shared came from Form 990-T, a business tax return document required for tax-exempt entities to report and pay income taxes on income generated that is unrelated to their exempt purpose, the IRS said.
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The inadvertent disclosures included names, contact information and financial information about income within those IRAs but did not include Social Security numbers, full individual income information or other data that could affect a taxpayer’s credit, according to a letter that the Treasury Department sent to key members of Congress on Friday that the Wall Street Journal reported.

“The IRS recently discovered that some machine-readable (XML) Form 990-T data made available for bulk download section on the Tax Exempt Organization Search (TEOS) should not have been made public,” the IRS said in a statement Friday.
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All taxpayer data and information is supposed to be confidential but charities with unrelated business income are also required to file Form 990-T and such tax filings are supposed to be made public.

The IRS and Treasury Department blamed the disclosure on a human coding error that happened last year when Form 990-T began to be electronically filed, the Journal reported.
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