US Rebuffs Claim of Sharing Tax Data With Immigration Officials

Two Chicago-based immigrant aid nonprofits haven’t justified their request for a court order preventing the US government from leveraging taxpayer information for deportations, lawyers for the Justice Department said.

The IRS hasn’t received any requests for tax return information as part of stepped-up immigrant enforcement efforts under the Trump administration, lawyers from the department’s tax division said in a legal filing March 17. The federal tax agency also hasn’t released any information to the Department of Homeland Security, the filing said.

That means the groups can’t show a violation of Internal Revenue Code Section 6103(a) that would justify a restraining ...