{"id":2245,"date":"2006-03-25T16:39:38","date_gmt":"2006-03-25T16:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2006-03-25T16:39:38","modified_gmt":"2006-03-25T16:39:38","slug":"irs_permits_tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2245","title":{"rendered":"IRS Permits Tax Preparers to Sell Our Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2006\/03\/17\/commentary\/everyday\/sahadi\/index.htm?cnn=yes\">Jeanne Sahadi<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Would you ever agree to work overtime for free, indefinitely, creating profits for someone else?<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s often what we do when we buy a product or service from companies. That&#8217;s because they can continue to make money off us by selling whatever personal information we give them in the course of the transaction. Your payback: more junk mail and greater risk of identity theft.<\/p>\n<p>And now it looks very likely that tax preparers will be able to profit off clients in ways having nothing to do with taxes.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to proposed changes to the IRS&#8217; privacy regulation of tax preparers, everyone from H&#038;R Block to your local tax-prep shop may be allowed to sell their clients&#8217; tax return information to any third party, including marketers and data brokers.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, they would need to get your consent, according to the proposed regulations.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeanne Sahadi: Would you ever agree to work overtime for free, indefinitely, creating profits for someone else? I didn&#8217;t think so. But that&#8217;s often what we do when we buy a product or service from companies. That&#8217;s because they can continue to make money off us by selling whatever personal information we give them in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}