The new ruling affirms the lower-court decision from November to keep blocking the sharing of information.
“As this court has already cautioned, ‘we expect that, going forward, [the] IRS will adhere to the representations made before this court regarding the address requirement,’ and we stress that the same applies to the other requirements of [the law,]” wrote Judge Cornelia Pillard on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Last spring, the Treasury and Homeland Security departments signed an agreement in which DHS provided 1.28 million names and addresses of people it wanted to detain and deport. The IRS would check in its confidential databases to confirm the identities and addresses.
A taxpayer rights group challenged the policy. The court determined it violated federal law because the IRS turned over taxpayer information even in cases where ICE did not provide a complete address.
The appeals court also questioned whether IRS properly required ICE to provide a specific reason indicating each person’s involvement in a criminal case — the legal way IRS could share information with law enforcement….
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