Then perhaps tax processing should be the exception and use of the unique tax identifier for other puposea made illegal. IMHO, it would not be an impossible tas

Then perhaps tax processing should be the exception and use of the unique tax identifier for other puposea made illegal. IMHO, it would not be an impossible task to generate a unique tax identifier for each person that is kept private to the government and then print a unique identifier on tax forms sent to each person to use for filing (that changes every year). The identifier isn't great, but it's the pervasive use of this identifier that is the problem.