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...report is available through the Government Printing Office in Washington for $6.50. After it was issued, former IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin declared: "That book is going to be a bestseller. It is a great legal analysis of very complicated issues...
...abiding myths has been that a citizen's individual income tax return is a confidential matter. Even Democratic National Chairman Lawrence O'Brien thought so, and he should know better. Two weeks ago, O'Brien, who was John Kennedy's congressional liaison, and Mortimer M. Caplin, J.F.K.'s Commissioner of Internal Revenue, piously deplored White House Investigator Clark Mollenhoff's seemingly unlimited access to individual tax returns. Illegal, huffed O'Brien. Unless President Nixon withdraws Mollenhoff's snooping privileges, they warned, "We are prepared to initiate legal action...
...that hundreds of state and federal officials have access to individual income tax returns, and the precedent goes back to 1910. It can be argued, of course, that many officials have good reason to seek such specific information for tax and criminal prosecutions. What angered O'Brien and Caplin was the notion that Mollenhoff, Nixon's political snooper, should enjoy the privilege in pursuit of partisan ends. Nixon and the IRS had the last word, however. Last week, the IRS produced a 1961 memo extending similar privileges to Carmine Bellino, the man who served J.F.K. in the same...
...argue against the regulation. The closemouthed National Geographic Society has declined to comment, but society officials said earlier that loss of its tax-exempt status might force a cutback in its scientific and educational activities. For the other side, cheers were led last week by former IRS Commissioner Mortimer Caplin, who has long fought to tax the taxexempt. "The business community is elated," he said. "This is a sound decision...
Critics are quick to point out that over the years the tax-exempt publications have won numerous influential friends. National Geographic, for example, has many VIPs on its board of trustees. "Generally," says former Commissioner Caplin, "such boards are window dressing." But, he adds, they serve to make Government investigators reviewing the tax status of such organizations "very cautious." Caplin, a lawyer who now represents the National Tax Equality Association, says that the investigators "are certainly not unaware of the line-up and the numbers of the players...