US IRS chief to quit over deal to share data with immigration officials, report says

Breaking the firewall: IRS data-sharing with immigration violates a promise, and the law

The Trump administration, in forcing the IRS to share its secret-by-law tax information with immigration enforcement authorities, is breaking with decades of precedent and almost certainly violating federal law. The IRS leadership, including Acting Commissioner Melanie Krause, is headed for the exits for such a lawless breach. There are a lot of things that differentiate the U.S. government from many more openly authoritarian ones around the wor…

IRS Cooperation with ICE Will Damage Public Trust, Putting Tax Revenues in Jeopardy

Attempts by the Department of Homeland Security to secure private information from the IRS on people who file taxes with an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number is a violation of federal privacy laws that protect taxpayers. It is also a change that could seriously damage public trust in the IRS, which could jeopardize billions of dollars in tax payments by hardworking immigrant families. The recent memorandum of understanding between the IR…

IRS provides ICE with sensitive tax data as part of Trump’s deportation efforts

Several top IRS officials resigned as the Trump administration revealed its plans to use tax data to target undocumented immigrants.

Rachel Maddow Explains Why ‘Something Quite Big and Quite Bad Is Happening’ at the IRS

Rather than focusing solely on President Trump’s mostly aborted tariff plan or his mass deportation immigration strategy, Rachel Maddow turned her attention Wednesday night to some troubling recent happenings at the IRS – a mass exodus. “One of the good indicators that something really big is going wrong is when you get news that people who have really big jobs in one part of the government — they all leave,” Maddow noted. “That is a pretty reli…

‘Federal government will be damaged’: Former IRS official on plan to share immigrant data with ICE

Melanie Krause, the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service, told staff she’s resigning. She was reportedly blindsided by an agreement between the Treasury Department and Homeland Security to share tax data from immigrants without legal status.The agreement was revealed this week in a court filing that was part of a lawsuit brought by immigrant rights groups to prevent the tax information sharing.In a statement, the Treasury Department defen…

IRS official resigns after agreement to share immigrant tax information with ICE

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS)—the US federal service responsible for collecting taxes for the government—acting commissioner Melanie Krause resigned on Tuesday over a new Trump administration agreement that allows the IRS to send immigrants’ tax information to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). On Monday, the Department of Treasury (TREAS) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) created a Memorandum of Understanding “fo…