The Tax Authority may soon participate

For years, the American Internal Revenue Department confirmed that uncomfortable workers can provide taxes without fear of their information that leads to their deportation. It seems that the agency will not be able to make this promise. According to the Washington PostThe Tax Authority is about to complete a deal with the enforcement of immigration and customs that would allow the participation of personal information previously.

Under the agreement, ICE will be able to send requests to the names and addresses of people suspected of the agency that they are not documented to the tax department. The Tax Authority after that would reference to these names through databases motivated taxes to confirm their information. It is said that the agreement will only cover the immigrants who have already been ordered to leave the country and requests – a narrowest agreement by the Ministry of Internal Security Trump Request in the pastBut one still goes beyond ever. The information is likely to be used in an attempt to implement the Trump administration’s collective deportation campaign.

It may seem surprising that the Tax Authority does not really do it, but there are good reasons for that. The first is that it is against the law to exchange any taxpayer information. With rare exceptions, it usually requires a court, The Tax Authority does not share tax information for anyoneIncluding basic information such as the name and the address provided on the tax documents of the person.

The second reason is money. The Tax Authority has long promised workers not documented that it is safe for them to provide taxes without fear of sharing their information with law enforcement. This led to the aforementioned workers. Many of them, in fact. Paying unconventional workers 100 billion dollars In taxes in 2022, and because most of these uncomfortable workers raise their taxes with the number of individual taxpayers instead of the social security number, they are unable to claim benefits such as tax credit assuming. They are also It is not eligible to get the advantages of retirement for social security Or health insurance through medical care. According to the Tax Policy CenterThe immigrant, who comes to the United States at the age of 25, will pay more than taxes than they will get in government advantages.

The Trump administration is pushing for the Tax Authority to exchange data on unrelated workers to help attempts to carry out “the largest deportation in American history.” Last month, the Ministry of National Security asked the Tax Authority Participation of 700,000 addresses, suspects, are not documented– He asked the Tax Authority to refuse his approval. But this complete demand, According to the Washington PostThe Tax Authority opened to negotiate the narrower data sharing deal that does not violate the tax privacy laws. This deal now looks imminent.

While the legal challenges were already submitted in an attempt to prevent the Tax Authority from sharing information for immigration enforcement purposes, last week, a federal judge (was appointed Trump during his first term) p.A proposal expelling to prevent such an agreement. Several Democratic Senate members have started Warning bells ringing About this, but so far a few resistance has not been born. During, DHS only closed the internal monitoring agencies That calls for immigrants.