DOJ, Immigrant Groups Spar on Tax Code Intent For Info Sharing

Immigrant aid groups seeking to stop an information sharing agreement between the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Homeland Security are fundamentally misunderstanding the tax code, the US government has told a federal court.

The DOJ-IRS agreement, signed earlier this year to allow wider information sharing between the two agencies with a stated purpose of immigration enforcement, doesn’t run afoul of the tax code provision generally shielding taxpayer information collected by the IRS, the Justice Department said in papers filed Thursday at the US District Court for the District of Columbia.

IRC Section 6103 contains limited exceptions, such as ...