[Hidden-tech] US Census Survey of Business Owners

Rich Roth webmaster at hidden-tech.net
Thu Jun 5 21:39:12 EDT 2014


1st off - what the IRS has pretty much stays with the IRS and you won't 
want the Census to
have access to the kind of info anyway.,

More important - what the Census wants is very different and focused on 
analysis of business types and functions.
It is used by Small business Administration and local economic planning 
agencies.

Also (and this I do have experience with this, and how planning 
commissions and agencies work)
the information the census releases is aggregated specifically so 
individual specific information
can not be reverse engineered.

Even detailed population census information is held for 72 years:
https://www.census.gov/history/www/faqs/genealogy_faqs/when_will_census_records_be_available.html

SO you are both safer providing info to the census and helping other 
small businesses.
As for the penalties - can't comment there

Net-net:  this is a good thing to do.
Rich/webmaster

On 6/5/2014 8:56 PM, Charles D. Lappen wrote:
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> Today I received a notice from the Census Bureau that I've been 
> "selected to participate in the 2012 Survey of Business Owners and 
> Self-Employed Persons (SBO).
>
> In big bold letters it says that it is MANDATORY to participate and 
> goes on to state that Title 13, USC, Sections 131 & 224 requires my 
> response.
>
> According to Section 224, I can be fined up to $500 if I don't 
> participate and up to $10,000 if I falsify information.
>
> I'm not willing to provide the Census Bureau financial information 
> about myself. The IRS already has all of it.
>
> Has anyone else ever received one of these?
>
> Has anyone "failed" to participate and what happened, if anything?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charles
>
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