The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
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Subchapter
010
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CONFIDENTIAL PREPARATION OF RETURNS
(Cite as: 32 V.S.A. § 5902)
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§ 5902. Persons preparing returns
A person shall be fined not more than $1,000.00 or imprisoned for not more than one
year, or both, if he or she receives any information furnished by a taxpayer to enable
such person to prepare or have prepared for such taxpayer a return of the tax imposed
by this chapter or a declaration of estimated tax required by this chapter and he
or she:
(1) uses any such information for any purpose other than the preparation of the return
or declaration or makes any such information available to any other person for any
such purpose, unless a valid consent, as described in section 5901 of this title, to so use such information or to so make such information available has been obtained;
or
(2) uses any such information, or makes any such information available, for a purpose
not specified in such valid consent. (Added 1971, No. 251 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. July 1, 1972.)