Yet again we have a case that has made the news where Washington’s ever increasing tax code complexity causes headache and grief greatly beyond necessity.
I read in the Washington Post this article:
New Tax Plan Could Jeopardize Small Business Owners' Privacy
This plan would require credit card companies to report the aggregate transactions of member businesses in a batch report to IRS officials. These reports will contain TINs and for smaller businesses SSNs. At a time where everyone is worried about identity theft ,the last thing we need is large batch reports laden with SSNs frequently transferring between private business and the government.

This information will go to the IRS for all merchants, regardless of any suspicion of illegal tax cheating activity. This is private and sensitive business data that, especially in the case of law abiding and tax compliant business, the government has no jurisdiction over. We have a fourth amendment that clearly protects the right of the people to be secure in their “papers” amongst other things. It is obvious that this protection is in regard to the personal and business records of a person, and should extend to modern electronic records. There is a basic aspect of human dignity that is removed when a government entity, has in effect, carte blanch access to all of an individual’s business dealings. This is not right, and it is not in keeping with the principles of our Constitution.

This is yet one more example of how our onerous tax code has gone too far. The tens of thousands of pages of tax code is nothing less than effective top down management of the economy by central planners. This system is Un-American and needs to be scrapped. The central objective of Richard Matthews when he gets to Congress will be to reform and reconstruct our system of taxation.