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From: rkp@drutx.UUCP (Pierce)
Newsgroups: net.consumers,net.legal
Subject: Re:  SS numbers etc.
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 11:09:19 EDT
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>  Correct me if I am wrong, but it occurs to me that a credit card company may
>  have justification in requesting your SS number on the grounds that they
>  are obliged to file tax related reports on you...
>  
>  Jonathan Shapiro
>  Haverford College...

>> If the gas companies are filing anything about you in particular with the
>> IRS they are violating your rights of privacy.  Incidentally, the banks 
>> already do that when they report on you.

>>	    From the Soapbox of
>>	    Tom Condon     {...!uw-beaver!teltone!teldata!tac}

>>	    A Radical A Day Keeps The Government At Bay.


I would agree that you are radical.  What do you mean, the banks
already do that when they report on you?  The banks report to the
IRS the interest you paid on your gas credit card?  You really are
nuts!  Like I said to someone else, what is so private about your
social security number?  Are you afraid someone is going to steal
all the money you've paid in before you are old enough to apply for
SS?  If you're so radical, why do you even pay taxes?  Maybe you
don't.

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.

Russ Pierce
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