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IRS Wants Access to eBay Seller Data


From: Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio () netti fi>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:30:46 +0200 (EET)

"Beginning in 2008, the federal government has proposed that auction houses like eBay report any customer who carries out 
more than 100 transactions above $5,000 USD. The law is being proposed because many are not reporting income from such 
sources."

More at
http://www.betanews.com/article/IRS_Wants_Access_to_eBay_Seller_Data/1172519585

Some of the readers remember this released a month ago:
Canada, UK etc. seeking tax cheats with special Web crawler
http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/804

- Juha-Matti
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