"The IRS not only failed to ensure that ICE's request for confidential taxpayer address information met the statutory requirements, but this failure led the IRS to disclose confidential taxpayer addresses to ICE in situations where ICE's request for that information was patently deficient."
"The IRS had provided DHS with information on 47,000 of the 1.28 million people that ICE requested - and, in most of those cases, gave ICE additional address information in violation of privacy rules created to protect taxpayer data."
"This confirms what we've been saying all along: that the IRS has an unlawful policy that violates the Internal Revenue Code's protections by releasing these addresses in a way that violates the law's requirements."
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly determined that the IRS violated IRS Code 6103, one of the strictest federal confidentiality laws, by sharing taxpayer addresses with ICE. The IRS provided information on 47,000 of the 1.28 million people ICE requested, often including additional address information in violation of privacy protections. The judge found the agency failed to ensure ICE's requests met statutory requirements and disclosed addresses in situations where ICE's requests were deficient. An IRS declaration revealed the extent of unauthorized disclosures. The government is appealing the ruling, though the declaration supports the judge's decision. Taxpayer rights advocates confirm this validates their position that the IRS operated under an unlawful policy.
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