Data of thousands of taxpayers wrongly shared with DHS, court filing says
Summary
The IRS shared taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security. This happened under an agreement to share information about immigrants in the U.S. The IRS could verify only a small portion of the names requested by ICE.Key Facts
- The IRS provided taxpayer information to the Department of Homeland Security.
- This sharing is part of an agreement aimed at identifying and deporting immigrants in the U.S. illegally.
- Treasury Secretary and Homeland Security Secretary signed this agreement in April.
- U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent 1.28 million names to the IRS.
- The IRS could verify about 47,000 names from the list.
- For less than 5% of the verified names, the IRS gave additional address information.
- The sharing of data might have broken privacy rules meant to protect taxpayer information.
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