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IRS Wants PayPal Account Information





If you are doing money laundary through PayPal, be careful! IRS is watching your back now. On the other hand, it does not mean PayPal will get access to all your domestic transactions, and IRS certainly does not have basis to classify all your PayPal cash inflows as income.

From SeattlePI.com:

The Internal Revenue Service won approval from a federal court to ask PayPal to turn over information about people who might be evading taxes by hiding income in other countries, officials said Tuesday.

A federal court in San Jose, Calif., gave the IRS permission to ask PayPal Inc. -- a company that enables online money transfers -- for account information for American taxpayers who have bank accounts, credit cards or debit cards issued by financial institutions in more than 30 countries reputed to be tax havens.

PayPal spokeswoman Amanda Pires said the company just received the summons.

"We're still evaluating our options," she said. "The privacy of our customers' information is something we take really seriously."

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