On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 12:07:34 -0000, Bull Spit <BS@whitehouse.gov>
wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:12:52 -0000, Tuttle's Almanac
<Harry.Tuttle@brazil.plumbing.gov> wrote:
Senate panel demands oil firms' tax records
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12502497/from/RSS/
WASHINGTON - A Senate committee Wednesday announced an
investigation into taxes paid by major oil companies
and asked the Internal Revenue Service for the companies'
tax returns.
Wow. I don't believe that Congress has the power to force the
executive to take actions. If there is to be a criminal investigation
then that should be done by the DOJ and the IRS not congress.
The Senate Finance Committee promised
"a comprehensive review of the federal taxes paid"
by the oil companies on their record profits last year.
It's highly unusual for the Senate committee to seek
corporate tax records. The last time it was done was
when the panel asked the IRS for the tax records of
Enron Corp.
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That's how they got Al Capone too.
The congress didn't get Capone. The FBI did.
Congress made the law, the FBI upheld it, that's their jobs.
Congress is tasked with making the laws not enforcing them. The tax
records of individuals and corporations are private and no one else
beyond the IRS may have access to them without due process. See 26 USC
7213 and 26 USC 7213A.
What is needed is a probable cause and a court order. See the IV
amendment of the Constitution.
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impossible." -- Jack Vance
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to keep the males around beyond sexual satiation." -- Captain Compassion
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Joseph R. Darancette
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