A new report by the Inspector General of the Treasury raises alarms about the Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement proficiency to protect taxpayer information, after both agencies concurred last year to communicate taxpayer figures for immigration probes.
By Catholics for Catholics
A new report by the Inspector General of the Treasury raises alarms about the Immigration and Custom’s Enforcement proficiency to protect taxpayer information, after both agencies concurred last year to communicate taxpayer figures for immigration probes, according to a story by Newsmax.
Also known as TIGTA, the Treasury’s inspector general found that the controversial 2025 data-sharing agreement formed between ICE and the Treasury, which permitted ICE to give names and addresses of immigrants inside the U.S. illegally to the IRS for cross-verification against tax records, developed in sketchy formatting in ICE’s data and the IRS’ matching criteria which led to errors.
The then-acting commissioner of the IRS resigned due to the deal.
Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, U.S. District Judge discovered that the IRS had by error shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people with the Department of Homeland Security as part of the agencies’ contentious agreement to share information on immigrants for the purpose of identifying and deporting people illegally in the U.S.
The TIGTA report gave no recommendations, according to a letter written by Nancy A. LaManna, deputy inspector general for inspections and evaluations.
“However, we plan to share some concerns we identified during our review with the DHS Office of Inspector General,” her letter states.
The TIGTA report states that after the agreement was signed, ICE requested address information on more than 1.2 million people, and the IRS ultimately provided last-known addresses for about 47,000 people.
But the report determined that the IRS’s automated matching process was defective. Inconsistent formatting in ICE’s data led to dubious matches, including in cases where incomplete or inaccurate addresses were labeled as valid, the report says.
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