Our response: your business is required to
participate in Census Bureau business surveys by law (Title 13, United States
Code).
13 U.S.C. § 221: US Code - Section 221: Refusal or
neglect to answer questions; false answers
(a)Whoever, being over eighteen years of age, refuses or
willfully neglects, when requested by the Secretary, or by any other authorized
officer or employee of the Department of Commerce or bureau or agency thereof
acting under the instructions of the Secretary or authorized officer, to
answer, to the best of his knowledge, any of the questions on any schedule
submitted to him in connection with any census or survey provided for by
subchapters I, II, IV, and V of chapter 5 of this title, applying to himself or
to the family to which he belongs or is related, or to the farm or farms of
which he or his family is the occupant, shall be fined not more than $100.
(b)Whoever, when answering questions described in subsection
(a) of this section, and under the conditions or circumstances described in
such subsection, willfully gives any answer that is false, shall be fined not
more than $500.
(c)Notwithstanding any other
provision of this title, no person shall be compelled to disclose information
relative to his religious beliefs or to membership in a religious body.
