IRS Using Google Maps to Spy on Taxpayers

IRS Using Google Maps to Spy on TaxpayersDaily-Caller – Agents from the Internal Revenue Service are using Google Maps as part of their tool kit to audit taxpayers and organizations. A redacted IRS letter dated Sept. 8, 2011 reveals that at least in one case the IRS’s examiners used photos of a property, obtained through Google Maps, as evidence to revoke the 501(c)(4) status of a homeowner’s association. [Read More]