Tax prep companies could have been sending your private data to Google, Meta, and others
Tracking pixels look to have been sharing your tax returns
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Tracking pixels look to have been sharing your tax returns
Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation following a probe that they said revealed potentially illegal sharing of taxpayer data by tax prep companies.
A report from Democratic lawmakers alleges that tax-prep companies shared people's income and other sensitive data with big tech firms.
The data of millions of taxpayers has been shared with “stunning disregard for taxpayer privacy,” the report found.
Congress released a highly anticipated report on Wednesday detailing how major tax prep companies and big tech firms like Google and Meta, parent of Facebook and Instagram, “recklessly” shared the sensitive tax data of tens of millions of Americans without proper safeguards. The senators cited evidence from their report in a fiery letter to the IRS, FTC, DOJ, and Treasury Inspector General, whom they urged to fully investigate the matter and to prosecute companies found to have violated tax laws