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From Fox News: A potentially historic deal between the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) could put illegal immigrants in a difficult position, according to one expert.
“It is going to discourage those taxpayers from even filing, so it really does put them between a rock and a hard place,” Adam Brewer, a federal tax expert who works for AB Tax Law, told Fox News Digital.
The comments come as the IRS and ICE are nearing a deal that would allow ICE to submit the names and addresses of illegal immigrants to the IRS, who could then cross-check those immigrants’ tax records and provide the immigration agency with current address information.
But some longtime IRS employees have expressed concerns about the deal, arguing that the tax agency has long assured the safeguarding of records in exchange for illegal immigrants filing tax returns, something they are required to do by law even though they are not in the country legally.
The draft agreement between the IRS and ICE would authorize verification “subject to criminal investigation” for violating immigration law, stretching the definition of a narrow IRS privacy exemption that allows the use of taxpayer data in the case of criminal investigations.
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Liberals and pro-migrant groups are fuming. Public Citizen, one liberal group, raged, “The IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE that would allow immigration officials access to protected taxpayer information. If this deal goes through, this info could be used by ICE to locate individuals for removal. This is unprecedented. We’re suing to stop it.”
The IRS is nearing an agreement with ICE that would allow immigration officials access to protected taxpayer information.
If this deal goes through, this info could be used by ICE to locate individuals for removal.
This is unprecedented. We’re suing to stop it.
— Public Citizen (@Public_Citizen) March 26, 2025
IRS sharing info with ICE would put illegal immigrants between ‘rock and a hard place’: expert https://t.co/SyxPKPgPar
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 28, 2025
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