White House, IRS exchanged confidential taxpayer info
The emails provided to Oversight investigators by the IRS had numerous redactions with the signifier “6103.”
Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code forbids a federal employee
from “disclos[ing] any return or return information obtained by him in
any manner in connection with his service as such an officer or an
employee.”
Federal employees who illegally disclose confidential taxpayer information could face five years in prison.
“Thanks, David. Thanks for the information on [6103],” White House
official Lambrew wrote to IRS official David Fish in a July 20, 2012
exchange. “I am still hoping to understand whether the 50 percent rule
is moot if the organization does not offer goods and services for sale
to the general public. Do we assume that organizations like [6103] do
offer goods and services for sale?”
Voice and Party of the people alright...Literally.
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