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.
