A federal appeals court upholds an order blocking the IRS from sharing certain taxpayer information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The court keeps in place an injunction after ruling that the relevant policy conflicts with tax confidentiality requirements.
The decision comes in the context of ICE seeking information, including last known addresses for millions of people, from the IRS. According to coverage, a lower court initially halted the information-sharing approach, and a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirms that ruling. The outlets describe the legal basis as violations of tax confidentiality laws, with the appeals court concluding that the government’s request is not consistent with those restrictions. While reporting focuses on the court’s stay of the IRS-ICE data-sharing effort, they do not dispute the overall outcome: the injunction remains in effect.
