Tax
Jun. 15, 2010
Taxes & Privacy, OHMY!
With all the fuss over Internet privacy, you'd think that your tax information was more sacrosanct. That's not so in the eyes of the Supreme Court, says Robert Wood of Wood & Porter.
Robert W. Wood
Managing Partner
Wood LLP
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San Francisco , California 94111-3601
Phone: (415) 834-0113
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Email: wood@WoodLLP.com
Univ of Chicago Law School
Wood is a tax lawyer at Wood LLP, and often advises lawyers and litigants about tax issues.
In this Internet age of ubiquitous Facebook, Twitter, and more, surely some things are meant to be, well, private. How much you make and what tax deductions you claim are probably more sacrosanct than your sex life. And yet the Supreme Court has recently decided not to review a case dramatically impacting taxpayers and privacy rights.
The decision is United States v. Textron, 577 F.3d 21 (1st Cir. 2009), cert. denied May 24, 2010. There's no dispu...
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