IRS Says It Exposed Some Confidential Taxpayer Data on Website

WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted what is often confidential data involving about 120,000 people earlier than discovering the error and eradicating the information from its web site, officials said Friday.

The knowledge are from Form 990-T, which is commonly required for folks with particular person retirement accounts who earn sure forms of enterprise revenue inside these retirement plans. That sometimes contains folks whose IRAs are invested in grasp restricted partnerships, actual property or different property that generate revenue, not these whose IRAs are solely invested in securities.