All Your Online Transactions Are Being Watched By The IRS

The IRS may be watching your online activities — including what you post on social media sites, what you sell online, even what you write in emails and text messages. 

Some tax experts and civil liberties groups are disturbed by what they call the agency's secretive practices. Taxpayers know little about how it uses big data and "robo-audits." 

"It's well-known in the tax community, but not many people outside of it are aware of this big expansion of data and computer use," Edward Zelinsky, a tax expert at Cardozo Law School and Yale Law School, told U.S. News & World Report.

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