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Politics
Jaymie Vaz

IRS just admitted to a massive privacy failure – handing thousands of confidential taxpayer files straight to ICE

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) just admitted to a monumental privacy failure. Newsweek reported that they improperly disclosed confidential taxpayer information of thousands of people to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The IRS also confirmed that it shared data even in cases where the DHS lacked sufficient information to positively identify the specific individuals.

This shocking admission came via a court filing this week, surrounding a data-sharing agreement signed by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in April 2025. The agreement was designed to assist immigration enforcement by allowing ICE to submit lists of names and addresses of people they believed were in the United States illegally, which the IRS was supposed to cross-check against tax records.

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