Abstract #301532

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JSM 2003 Abstract #301532
Activity Number: 201
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 5, 2003 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Government Statistics
Abstract - #301532
Title: The Release of IRS Data: Challenges and New Approaches
Author(s): Nick Greenia*+
Companies: Internal Revenue Service
Address: PO Box 2608, Washington, DC, 20013-2608,
Keywords: federal tax information ; confidentiality ; data utility ; CIPSEA ; statistical use
Abstract:

Confidential Federal Tax Information is used not only for administering the nation's income tax system but also as a mainstay in meeting the mandates of federal statistical agencies; e.g., as an essential annual input for the Census Bureau's business register. This paper provides a brief summary of the Internal Revenue Service's statutory and procedural requirements as context necessary for understanding the broader problem of optimizing the tradeoff between data utility and taxpayer confidentiality. It presents additional problems resulting from a decentralized release of data products, and offers some alternative approaches for meeting user needs, possibly including that suggested by the experience of the Census Bureau and IRS following an inter-agency agreement effective since September 2000. Finally, as time and circumstance permit, the paper will summarize the status of the Administration's proposal to amend section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code. This bill of conforming amendments was submitted to Congress in July 2002 as a companion to the Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act, signed by President Bush December 17, 2002.

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