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From: rcd@opus.UUCP (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal
Subject: Re:  SS numbers etc.
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 03:36:50 EDT
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Posted: Sat May 19 03:36:50 1984
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We seem to be oscillating on this business...

>Anyway (let me get my composure back), if you have paid $1000 in
>interest to a credit company, you had better hope that the IRS
>gets a report on that amount so you can deduct it.  And how are
>they going to get a report unless the credit company has your SS
>number.  Make's perfect non-radical sense to me.

No, you don't give a damn whether they report it.  You keep your statements
and your canceled checks, which are both necessary and sufficient to prove
the interest charges you have paid.
Look, you can also deduct the sales tax you pay at the store.  Does every
store at which you shop take your SSN so they can report the tax???
-- 
...A friend of the devil is a friend of mine.		Dick Dunn
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