(A) No present or former employee of the city shall intentionally and without authorization inspect or divulge any information acquired by him or her of the affairs of any person, or information regarding tax schedules, returns, or reports required to be filed with the city, or any information produced by a hearing or investigation, insofar as the information may have to do with the affairs of the person's business. This prohibition does not extend to information required in prosecutions for making false reports or returns for taxation, or any other infraction of the tax laws, or in any way made a matter of public record, nor does it preclude furnishing any taxpayer or the taxpayer's properly authorized agent with information respecting his or her own return. Further, this prohibition does not preclude any employee of the city from testifying in any court, or from introducing as evidence returns or reports filed with the city, in any action for violation of the city's tax laws or in any action challenging the city's tax laws.
(B) The city reserves the right to disclose to the Commissioner of Revenue of the Commonwealth of Kentucky or his or her duly authorized agent and to the Internal Revenue Service all such information and rights to inspect any of the books and records of the city if the Commissioner of Revenue or the Internal Revenue Service grants the city reciprocal rights to obtain similar information. Provided, further, that the city may publish statistics based on such information in such a manner as not to reveal data respecting net profits or compensation of any person.
(C) In addition the city is empowered to execute similar reciprocity agreements as described in division (B) of this section with any other taxing entity, should there be a need for exchange of information in order to effect diligent enforcement of this chapter.
(D) Further the city may divulge all information and rights to inspect books and records of this city upon proper service of process by state or federal authorities.
(Ord. 2007-11, passed 12-3-07; Am. Ord. 2010-02, passed 2-1-10; Am. Ord. 2019-03, passed 2-18-19) Penalty, see § 111.99