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Congress Approves Omnibus Appropriations Bill Despite Disclosure Glitch - The most interesting part of this news story is this:
The section would have allowed "agents" designated by the chair of either chamber's Appropriations Committee "access to Internal Revenue Service facilities and any tax returns or return information contained therein."
For anyone who remembers how Presidents Nixon and Clinton used the IRS to attack and persecute their political enemies, this kind of thing isn't a positive addition to the tax code and it should frighten anyone concerned about privacy that such language is being sneaked into legislation.