The party line by the IRS has been that it is illegal to share IRS data. There isn't a "to help deport" people exception in the Privacy Act. - ThreadSky

donmoyn.bsky.social • 1 day ago

The party line by the IRS has been that it is illegal to share IRS data. There isn't a "to help deport" people exception in the Privacy Act.

Reposted from Jacob Bogage

**Major** update to this story, and something I'll continue reporting on through the weekend:

🚨 The new acting IRS commissioner has indicated she plans to comply with DHS's request for the addresses of 700,000 suspected undocumented immigrants. 🚨

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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dankeevy.bsky.social•1 day ago

Also, you know how to get people to stop reporting taxes?

valenvsfel.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Or start using shell addresses...

valenvsfel.bsky.social•22 hours ago

But the irs probably uses your filing address as part of residence requirements so fun...

dankeevy.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Exactly. Do you risk filing taxes and get noticed or just try and live off of the radar. Both ways are pretty much guaranteed to end poorly.

margaretnielsen.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Shocking news.

annslater22.bsky.social•1 day ago

Can't help but remember Trump saying for YEARS that he couldn't share his taxes because they were under audit. And, now here he is with access to everyone else's. 🤔

merrittkelly1.bsky.social•12 hours ago

Infuriating!

blue-n-al.bsky.social•1 day ago

First they came for.....

expeditionworks.bsky.social•1 day ago

Generally, the IRS can only share taxpayer information under IRC Section 6103(i)(1) providing that, pursuant to court order, return information may be shared with law enforcement agencies for investigation and prosecution of non-tax criminal laws.

That court order is the important part.

annietibeau.bsky.social•1 day ago

Sounds familiar. In 1942 the Census Bureau illegally provided confidential demographic information to federal authorities about where Japanese Americans lived in California and three other states. Will we ever learn?

actualkatherine.bsky.social•1 day ago

Ooooooooof

doubtthedefault.bsky.social•20 hours ago

MAGA: They don't pay anything in taxes.
Media: How will you find them?
MAGA: On the tax rolls...
...
...
Media: "Leon goes looking for fraud. May be borderline unethical, but this guy with a Trunt flag says it's ok with him."

josalo.bsky.social•1 day ago

ALLOURDATAAREBELONGTOTHEM

katgw.bsky.social•1 day ago

100% agree. Damn. Illegal actions going on are like a freight train with no brakes. Friggin appalling and unreal.

zorkamilin.bsky.social•19 hours ago

It’s not a party line - it’s the law. Taxpayer confidentiality is in the tax code, and the legal protections are way stronger than the privacy act.

voradams.bsky.social•1 day ago

Looking forward to see if the Nuremberg defence will work in US justice system

desmojeff.bsky.social•21 hours ago

So they want to deport people paying taxes. Sounds on brand to me.

mykl.sparkle.blue•18 hours ago

As Frank Wilhoit (the right one) said, "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

mumko.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p1.pdf

texaskrusty.bsky.social•1 day ago

But I was told undocumented didn’t pay income taxes.

drsoup34.bsky.social•1 day ago

The geniuses who think they'll find addresses in IRS data by looking for folks with fake social security numbers (and explain how that works, besides name ends in -ez or -ia) think folks that successfully immigrated here by their own wiles are too dumb to come up with fake addresses, aren't they?

thisusernameistakn.bsky.social•1 day ago

Is this in support? It’s giving me the willies.

rosaluxlux.bsky.social•1 day ago

People applying for TINs use real addresses because they're trying to comply with US law, often as part of trying to get legal resident status.

rosaluxlux.bsky.social•1 day ago

I have literally nightmares about this because for a decade I've reassured people that the IRS only cares about you paying their taxes and doesn't share information.

cls9439.bsky.social•12 hours ago

And how do they know they're illegal?

kimichitsuzuku.bsky.social•10 hours ago

American citizens/nationals have a SSN to start with.

Employers are required by law to provide hiring statistics to the labor depts and payroll taxes regardless of employee status.

Resident non-citizens would have an immigrant ID# as a SSN equivalent.

kimichitsuzuku.bsky.social•10 hours ago

The only “good” thing that they might do with all the data skimmed from multiple agencies is that they may catch people using fraudulent SSNs to hide their status.

More likely, they will catch errors of incomplete names/changes & typos that always happen. Or people who had to change their SSN.

economicnihilist.bsky.social•1 day ago

FUCK ICE. I keep saying for no reason that it's legal in all 50 states to carry cans of soup and jars of urine around.

artski.bsky.social•1 day ago

It's just a law. You can't expect someone like the President or his minions to follow it... anymore.

drmonologue.bsky.social•23 hours ago

Every one of those IRS employees could get a job in the private sector 15 min after walking out. The only reason they've stayed so far is commitment and professionalism. I think we'll see a mass resignation of what's left at the IRS next week.

uneasywriter.bsky.social•22 hours ago

No they can’t? That’s not how job hunting works today! It’s 2025, not 1975. Employers have to do background checks, drug tests, interview multiple candidates.

drmonologue.bsky.social•22 hours ago

My guess is you've never been headhunted before. No, that's what you do for employees you don't trust yet because you don't know them. Not to fill positions you need filled right away, when the employer goes looking for them, like qualified accountants that are also often attorneys.

uneasywriter.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Is headhunting still a thing? Will it be when thousands of people have been dumped into the unemployment rolls in this economy? Senior management might get snatched up but everyone else will have to wait in line.

ubiquity75.bsky.social•1 day ago

Great. Let's get Trump, Musk, Bezos, et al.'s tax returns. And addresses.

osmote.net•1 day ago

They're going to do it anyway, obviously

craigrcarl.bsky.social•19 hours ago

But they wouldn't "share" Trump's tax frauds with the public.

anarchymarshmallow.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Tax strike anyone

fuckswasticars.bsky.social•10 hours ago

Yup, "go fash, no cash" applies to the feds too.

pauletteparis1.bsky.social•1 day ago

Proves they DO pay taxes.

kcwhimsy.bsky.social•1 day ago

25 billion a year into SS alone.

solient.bsky.social•1 day ago

More than the broligarchs do.

pauletteparis1.bsky.social•1 day ago

🤬🤬🤬

asiegel.bsky.social•1 day ago

It isn’t a line, it’s the law.

marktl.bsky.social•1 day ago

Deleting 700,000 taxpayers seems like bath, babywater kind of thing

chrisneyland.bsky.social•20 hours ago

What are the criminal penalties for her violation of the Privacy Act?

leslieehrlich.bsky.social•22 hours ago

It is literally illegal to share tax return info with both civil and criminal penalties

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p4761.pdf

ninawinnie.bsky.social•18 hours ago

And now they will no longer pay taxes, because Lucky, for them there aren’t any IRS personnel to track them down and force them to pay.

cairistionaaoidh.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Be a few house swaps I guess !

ninguna.bsky.social•1 day ago

26 USC 6103. Not just the Privacy Act.

sketchette.bsky.social•18 hours ago

It’s cute how people still expect them to go by the law.

Isn’t it EVIDENT that they don’t give a rat’s ass about the law and the constitution?

It should be.

kcwhimsy.bsky.social•1 day ago

We didn’t need that 25 billion dollars they pay into Social Security anyway. A benefit they can’t claim. They’ll sure go under the table now.

galaxydreams70.bsky.social•1 day ago

Here comes a lawsuit.

lyledal.bsky.social•1 day ago

They'll be using this data to come after the rest of us too. Sooner or later, and likely sooner.

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