Federal judge says IRS can continue to share tax data to identify and deport people illegally in U.S.

On Monday, a federal judge refused to prevent the internal revenue department from sharing the tax data of migrants with migration and customs enforcement for the purpose of illegally identifying and deporting people in the United States.

In his victory over the Trump administration, the American boycott judge, Dabney Fredchy, denied a preliminary lawsuit filed by non -profit groups. They argued that illegal immigrants who pay taxes are entitled to obtain the same protection as privacy, such as American citizens and immigrants who are legally in the country.

Friedrich, who was appointed by President Donald Trump, had previously refused to give a temporary order in the case.

The decision comes less than a month after the resignation of the former Tax Authority Commissioner in the Tax Authority, the Chargé d’Affaires of Melanie Kraos, regarding the deal that allowed ice to provide illegal names and addresses of immigrants inside the United States to the Tax Authority in order to define the crossing against tax records.

“Prosecutors are disappointed by the court’s refusal of our first order, but the case has not ended yet. We are thinking about our options,” wrote Alan Butler Morrison, a lawyer who represents non -profit groups, wrote in an email. He pointed out that the judge’s decision clarified that the Ministry of Internal Security and the Tax Authority cannot adventure beyond the strict restrictions that have been clarified in the case.

Morrison said: “Until now, the Ministry of National Security has not submitted official requests for taxpayers data, and the prosecutors will maintain close monitoring to ensure that the defendants are promises to follow the law and not to use the exception for illegal purposes.”

The Tax Authority was in a state of turmoil on the Trump administration decisions to exchange taxpayers data. A former commissioner on behalf of his retirement announced early, amid anger at the administration of government competence in Elon Musk to access taxpayer data in the Tax Authority.

The Treasury says that the agreement with ICE will help implement the agenda of President Donald Trump to secure the American border, which is part of the largest immigration campaign in the country, which led to the deportation and raids of the workplace and the use of the war law in the eighteenth century to deport Venezuelan immigrants.

Acting Ice Director said that working with the treasury and other departments “is” strictly “for the main criminal cases.”

However, defenders say the IRS-DHS information is violating privacy laws and reduces the privacy of all Americans.

In her decision, Friedrich said that the agreement does not violate the law of internal revenue, and therefore the Tax Authority did not significantly change the way he deals with the taxpayer information. Instead, the Trump administration decided to use “legally accredited tools” to help criminal investigations.

The judge said that the federal law allows the tax department to issue some tax motivated information to other agencies if the information may help in criminal enforcement procedures, and to meet the required agency certain criteria.

However, this does not mean that all the information carried by the Tax Authority can be stopped.

First, the investigation agency must already have the name and address of the person whose information is searching for. After that, the agency must provide this information to the Tax Authority, in addition to the period of time in which information is related, and the law that allows the issuance of information and the reason that any interest in the Tax Authority will be related to the investigation.

“In other words, IRS can detect the information he gets (such as audit operations), but not the information he gets exclusively from the taxpayer (such as the tax declaration made by the taxpayer),” Friedrich wrote. She pointed out that the law contains an important exception – the identity of the taxpayer, including the individual name, address or taxpayer, is not considered part of the protected tax declaration information.

This story was originally shown on Fortune.com

2025-05-13 09:53:00