IRS agrees to share migrant tax information with ICE

The Internal Revenue Service has agreed to help national security officials to find immigrants who are trying to expel, according to the registers of the court, undertaking to share information in what would be a fundamental change in the way the tax debt collector uses his strictly regulated registers.

In a deposit of the Court, the Trump administration said that the IRS, immigration and the application of the customs had reached the agreement on Monday and that the two agencies had not yet shared any information. According to the terms of the agreement, a written version of which it was presented in case, ICE officials can ask the IRS information on the people to whom he was ordered to leave the United States or who are otherwise investigating.

The federal law strictly controls the information on taxpayers, the protection of domestic addresses, profits and other data from dissemination also to other agencies within the government. The IRS officials warned for weeks that the Trump administration plan to use the IRS to help with deportations could be illegal. The best lawyer Irs was relegated While the agreement joined and was replaced by a former candidate for Trump.

“He has no precedent,” said Nina Olson, executive director of the Center for TaxPayer Rights and an ex officer of the IRS, the Trump administration plan.

There are restricted exceptions to the ban on sharing tax information and the agreement shows that the Trump administration will be based on a cutout to allow the use of information on taxpayers in criminal investigations. Immigration defense groups sued to try to block any information sharing and the Trump administration revealed the agreement in response to this cause.

Millions of workers without documents pay taxes, improving financial perspectives for federal programs such as social security. The IRS has encouraged them to present tax declarations using a nine -digit code called individual identification number of taxpayers. Immigration activists and tax lawyers said they have long trusted that the IRS would protect the confidentiality of migrants’ tax information, which includes where people live and work and details on their families.

The change of approach from the IRS could guide multiple immigrants to stop presenting their taxes and looking for jobs under the table, the economists said.