IRS acting commissioner is resigning over deal to send immigrants' tax data to ICE, AP sources say
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The Internal Revenue Service’s acting commissioner is resigning over a deal to share immigrants’ tax data with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S.
  • SuperCub@sh.itjust.worksOP
    3·
    18 days ago

    This agreement opens the flow of information from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to Immigration Control and Enforcement (ICE) for the purpose of immigration enforcement. There are federal statutes that protect taxpayer privacy, however this Republican administration has demonstrated that it doesn’t care about the law.

  • bobbyfiend@lemmy.ml
    3·
    17 days ago

    Well, this is fucking horrifying, and it won’t make the news because of the other, louder apocalypses currently happening.