Internal Revenue Service Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! PreviewAdvancedSpecial charactersHelpHeadingLevel 2Level 3Level 4Level 5FormatInsertLatinLatin extendedIPASymbolsGreekGreek extendedCyrillicArabicArabic extendedHebrewBanglaTamilTeluguSinhalaDevanagariGujaratiThaiLaoKhmerCanadian AboriginalRunesÁáÀàÂâÄäÃãǍǎĀāĂ㥹ÅåĆćĈĉÇçČčĊċĐđĎďÉéÈèÊêËëĚěĒēĔĕĖėĘęĜĝĢģĞğĠġĤĥĦħÍíÌìÎîÏïĨĩǏǐĪīĬĭİıĮįĴĵĶķĹĺĻļĽľŁłŃńÑñŅņŇňÓóÒòÔôÖöÕõǑǒŌōŎŏǪǫŐőŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšȘșȚțŤťÚúÙùÛûÜüŨũŮůǓǔŪūǖǘǚǜŬŭŲųŰűŴŵÝýŶŷŸÿȲȳŹźŽžŻżÆæǢǣØøŒœßÐðÞþƏəFormattingLinksHeadingsListsFilesDiscussionReferencesDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getItalic''Italic text''Italic textBold'''Bold text'''Bold textBold & italic'''''Bold & italic text'''''Bold & italic textDescriptionWhat you typeWhat you getReferencePage text.<ref>[https://www.example.org/ Link text], additional text.</ref>Page text.[1]Named referencePage text.<ref name="test">[https://www.example.org/ Link text]</ref>Page text.[2]Additional use of the same referencePage text.<ref name="test" />Page text.[2]Display references<references />↑ Link text, additional text.↑ Link text===Presidential tax returns (1973)=== From the 1950s through the 1970s, the IRS began using technology such as microfilm to keep and organize records. Access to this information proved controversial, when [[Richard Nixon|President Richard Nixon]]'s tax returns were leaked to the public. His tax advisor, Edward L. Morgan, became the fourth law-enforcement official to be charged with a crime during [[Watergate scandal|Watergate]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945108,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222061726/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,945108,00.html |archive-date=December 22, 2008 |magazine=Time |title=Investigations: Fraud in Nixon's Taxes |date=November 18, 1974 |access-date=May 5, 2010}}</ref> John Requard Jr., accused of leaking the Nixon tax returns, collected delinquent taxes in the slums of Washington. In his words: "We went after people for nickels and dimes, many of them poor and in many cases illiterate people who didn't know how to deal with a government agency." Requard admitted that he saw the returns but denied that he leaked them.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-12-21/business/0312210282_1_nixon-requard-tax-liability/3 |title=How an IRS leak changed history altered history |work=Baltimore Sun |date=December 21, 2003 |access-date=August 9, 2010 |archive-date=July 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120711214823/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-12-21/business/0312210282_1_nixon-requard-tax-liability/3 }}</ref> Reporter [[Jack White (reporter)|Jack White]] of ''[[The Providence Journal]]'' won the [[Pulitzer Prize]] for reporting about Nixon's tax returns. Nixon, with a salary of $200,000, paid $792.81 in federal income tax in 1970 and $878.03 in 1971, with deductions of $571,000 for donating "vice-presidential papers".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-12-21/business/0312210282_1_nixon-requard-tax-liability |title=How an IRS leak changed historyaltered history |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |date=December 21, 2003 |access-date=August 9, 2010 |archive-date=January 11, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111131640/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-12-21/business/0312210282_1_nixon-requard-tax-liability }}</ref> This was one of the reasons for his famous statement: "Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got." So controversial was this leak, that most later US presidents released their tax returns (though sometimes only partially). These returns can be found online at the Tax History Project.<ref>[http://www.taxhistory.org/www/website.nsf/Web/PresidentialTaxReturns/ Tax History Project{{snd}}Presidential Tax Returns]. Taxhistory.org. Retrieved on August 10, 2013.</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page