ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland ...

Shortly after taking office, President Donald Trump and his administration began pushing the IRS to share taxpayer data to aid in identifying undocumented immigrants. Leaked documents reviewed by ...

Unintended consequences: how recent data protection rulings threaten Europe's digital future By Rachel Feldman, Alex Fields and Candace Yifru June 26, 20256:47 AM PDTUpdated June 26, 2025 ...

The tax agency’s Information Technology unit will have to reprogram IRS data systems to reflect those changes, if they become law. But that unit has lost 27% of its staff, Collins reports.

Acting IRS general counsel Andrew De Mello refused an ICE bid for 7.3 million addresses under Section 6103 privacy rules, then was forced out on June 27, internal emails show.

The MOU changes that by explicitly grounding ICE’s access to IRS data in 8 U.S.C. § 1253 (a) (1), a criminal statute governing willful failure to depart after removal.

Crucially, the court determined that the IRS cannot issue this required notice instead of HHS. This ruling invalidates a 2013 HHS regulation that had delegated this notification authority to the IRS.

The Internal Revenue Service is building a computer program that would give deportation officers unprecedented access to confidential tax data. ProPublica has obtained a blueprint of the system ...