November 21, 2025
A D.C. federal judge temporarily stopped the IRS on Friday from sharing confidential taxpayer addresses with immigration enforcement officials, saying the agency's disclosures of addresses in August under an information-sharing deal were unlawful.
November 12, 2025
The Trump administration has said the IRS complied with regulations when considering information requests from immigration enforcement officials, urging a D.C. federal judge to deny advocacy groups' request to submit a supplemental filing asserting that documents it turned over show otherwise.
November 05, 2025
Documents submitted by the U.S. government to a D.C. federal court show the IRS violated taxpayer privacy laws by sharing individuals' addresses with ICE despite its requests lacking required information and by accepting an unreasonable explanation about why the information was requested, several groups said.
October 30, 2025
The IRS, following a judge's order, has released its administrative record in a lawsuit over its agreement to share taxpayer information with federal immigration authorities, including emails in which officials discuss U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's request for information on nearly 1.3 million taxpayers.
October 02, 2025
The U.S. Department of Justice must still submit court-ordered information in a lawsuit challenging the Internal Revenue Service's sharing of tax data with immigration authorities by Oct. 24, a D.C. federal judge ruled, despite the federal government shutdown that began Wednesday.
September 18, 2025
The U.S. government disclosed additional details Thursday on the agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement authorities to share confidential tax return information, including who had necessary permissions to access the disclosures, following a D.C. federal judge's order in a lawsuit seeking to end the interagency data sharing.
September 17, 2025
An information sharing agreement between the IRS and immigration enforcement agencies allows for disclosure of confidential tax information on a mass scale, as evidenced by an IRS official's declaration in a taxpayer group's suit, immigration advocacy groups challenging the agreement told the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday.
September 09, 2025
A D.C. federal judge in a series of orders Friday and Tuesday said the IRS must notify the court within 24 hours of receiving a request from immigration authorities for taxpayer information and hand over administrative records while the court considers a request to stop the intergovernmental data sharing.
September 05, 2025
A D.C. senior judge pressed a government attorney Friday over the specifics of the IRS' disclosure of tax return information to immigration enforcement agencies, saying the details were crucial to weighing a coalition of organizations' bid to block the practice.
July 11, 2025
Unions and advocacy organizations trying to block the White House's Department of Government Efficiency from sharing taxpayer data across agencies have not shown they've suffered the sort of injuries that would allow them to sue the federal government, the U.S. government told a D.C. federal court.