DOJ Reiterates Legality of IRS Sharing Immigrant Taxpayers’ Info

The Justice Department’s Tax Division again defended the IRS’s information sharing agreement with the Homeland Security Department, arguing that groups providing services to immigrants can’t prove they suffered any damages or that the government is violating the taxpayer privacy guarantees in IRC Section 6103.

“We reiterate that the only individuals who face a plausible threat of their return information being disclosed” to DHS’s Immigraiton and Customs Enforcement are those who used individual taxpayer identification numbers (ITINs) and are subject to—or likely to be subject to in the immediate future—a federal criminal investigation or proceeding not related to their taxes, the ...