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From: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal
Subject: Re: N.J. Motor Vehicle Bureau Requjires Social Security Numbers
Message-ID: <772@lsuc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Aug-85 22:40:44 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 29 22:40:44 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 30-Aug-85 01:44:02 EDT
References: <15@ucdavis.UUCP> <4195@alice.UUCP>
Reply-To: dave@lsuc.UUCP (David Sherman)
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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Summary: SSN irrelevant to a tax lead

In article <4195@alice.UUCP> ark@alice.UUCP (Andrew Koenig) writes:
>> 	For those of you that think this is an invasion of privacy, well,
>>no harm can come of anyone knowing your social sec. no..... here's why
>
>Oh really?  Suppose I got your name, address, and SSN, and mailed
>an anonymouse letter to Infernal Revenue to the effect that you were
>failing to report $50,000 a year in illegal income.  Do you think that
>would be harmless?

There are reasons for not letting the world know your SSN (in
Canada: SIN), but that isn't one of them. If you want to cause
trouble for someone by writing to the Internal Revenue Service
(in Canada: Revenue Canada, Taxation) and accusing the individual
of failing to report income, it would hardly matter whether
you included that person's SSN (SIN). Do you really think that,
given a name and address, the authorities can't find your file?

Dave Sherman (spouse of a Revenue Canada auditor)
The Law Society of Upper Canada
Toronto

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