A federal judge has found that the Internal Revenue Service “violated” federal law “approximately 42,695 times” when the agency shared confidential taxpayer information with immigration authorities last year.
Thursday’s ruling from District Judge Coleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., determined that the IRS unlawfully shared taxpayer information for thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security as part of a controversial agreement under Donald Trump’s administration to track down and arrest people living in the country illegally.
