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Vermont Tax Department defends IRS data sharing as vital for enforcement, says legal limits apply
Summary
Deputy Commissioner Rebecca Samrock and Legal Director Will Baker told the Ways & Means committee the Vermont Tax Department relies heavily on IRS data for compliance, uses several routine batch data products, has limited history of federal requests for return information, and has complied with federal inspector general subpoenas when required.
Rebecca Samrock, deputy commissioner of the Tax Department, and Will Baker, legal director at the department, briefed the Ways & Means committee on Friday, April 18 about the department’s use of IRS data and the safeguards that govern intergovernmental data sharing.
“We rely on different IRS abstracts to identify non‑filers [and] flag filing discrepancies,” Samrock said, describing routine automated data exchanges that support compliance work on personal, corporate and business income tax. Under an “implementing agreement” with the IRS, the department receives several batch data products — described to the committee as a suspicious‑filers file, an audit and appeals report, a real estate transfer database, and a state…
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