A federal judge ruled the IRS illegally shared 42,695 taxpayer addresses with ICE, violating privacy laws.

A federal judge found that the IRS had broken IRS Code 6103's stringent privacy protections 42,695 times by giving ICE access to private taxpayer addresses. The IRS failed to confirm that ICE's requests complied with legal requirements, such as disclosing data for invalid or illogical addresses, as part of a contentious 2023 agreement with DHS. Based on a significant IRS declaration, the decision upholds ongoing legal challenges to the program, which led to the acting IRS commissioner's resignation. Two preliminary injunctions that prevent ICE from using IRS data and preventing large-scale data transfers are still in effect while the government appeals. Treasury and the IRS remained silent.