[87165] in Cypherpunks
Re: Plea from a parent who wants to keep their kid free of SSNs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam Shostack)
Fri Sep 26 10:25:16 1997
From: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95.970925115935.1676I-100000@well.com> from Declan McCullagh at "Sep 25, 97 12:00:00 pm"
To: declan@well.com (Declan McCullagh)
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 1997 09:31:37 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, sirdavid@ktc.com
Reply-To: Adam Shostack <adam@homeport.org>
This may go against your religious wishes, but listing your children
with SSNs of public figures may allow you to bypass the IRS computer
that checks if the child has a valid SSN listed, without getting SSNs
that 'belong to' your children.
"Yes, I did name my children Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, in the
hopes that they'll grow up facist."
Adam
Declan McCullagh wrote:
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| ---------- Forwarded message ----------
| Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 08:12:58 +0000
| From: "David C. Treibs" <sirdavid@ktc.com>
| To: "(David C. Treibs)" < (SirDavid@ktc.com)>
| Subject: Need Help with IRS Problems
|
| David C. Treibs
| Fredericksburg, TX 78624
| sirdavid@ktc.com
|
| Hi.
|
| We are in trouble with the IRS, and we need help.
|
| For religious reasons (explained below), we do not have Social Security
| numbers for our children, the oldest of 4 being 5 years old.
|
| Last year we sent in our return, as we have always done, without SSNs
| for our children. My wife and I do have social security numbers, and we
| sent those. IRS sent us a letter saying they were disallowing our
| exemptions since we had no SSNs for them. They gave us the opportunity
| to contest their disallowance, which we did by sending them our
| children's birth certificates; and letters from our parents, and a letter
| from our pediatrician, stating the children we claimed were indeed our
| children and our dependents. We don't have a problem proving that we are
| claiming legitimate dependents.
|
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"It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once."
-Hume
