Washington– A new Treasury Inspector General report raises concerns about ICE’s ability to protect taxpayer information, following ICE and IRS Agreed in 2025 to share taxpayer data For the purpose of immigration investigations.
The recently released report provides the first official accounting of IRS-ICE’s information transfer volume and documents the security concerns surrounding which arrangement was most significant. Subject of multiple lawsuits There was great controversy within the two agencies.
The Treasury Department’s Inspector General, also known as TIGTA, found that a controversial 2025 data exchange agreement drafted between ICE and the Treasury Department, which allowed ICE to illegally submit the names and addresses of immigrants within the United States to the IRS for verification of tax records, led to inconsistent formatting in ICE data and IRS matching standards that led to errors.
The deal led Then-acting IRS Commissioner To resign.
The report states that after the agreement was signed, ICE requested information on the addresses of more than 1.2 million people, and the IRS ultimately provided the last known addresses of about 47,000 people.
TIGTA concluded that the IRS’s automatic matching process was flawed. The report says inconsistent formatting in ICE data led to questionable matches, including cases where incomplete or inaccurate addresses were classified as valid.
Representatives for the Treasury Department and the IRS did not respond to The Associated Press’ request for comment.
The tax and immigration data verification plan is part of President Donald Trump’s agenda to secure U.S. borders and his broad nationwide crackdown on immigration, which has led to deportations, workplace raids and 18th-century employment. Wartime law to Deportation of Venezuelan immigrants.
However, this is not the first time tens of thousands of taxpayer information has been disclosed to ICE.
In February, a federal judge He said the IRS broke the law By disclosing confidential taxpayer information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, referring to the same 47,000 disclosures referred to by TIGTA.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar Cutelli found that the IRS wrongly shared taxpayer information on thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security as part of the agencies’ controversial agreement to share information about immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the United States.
No recommendations were made in the new TIGTA report, according to a letter written by Nancy A. Lamanna, Deputy Inspector General for Inspections and Evaluation.
“However, we plan to share some of the concerns we identified during our review with the DHS Office of Inspector General,” her letter said.