Federal Judge Accuses IRS of 42,695 Privacy Violations After ICE Address Requests

A federal judge says the IRS broke tax privacy law thousands of times by sending taxpayer address information to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, escalating a fight over whether tax records can be used to fuel immigration enforcement.

In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found the IRS illegally disclosed “last known taxpayer addresses” to ICE about 42,695 times, largely because the agency did not properly confirm ICE’s requests met the law’s address requirement.

According to the Associated Press and Spectrum Local News, the dispute traces back to a brrangement and ICE requests tied to immigration-related investigations.

Court filings say ICE submitted roughly 1.28 million requests and the IRS returned 47,289 addresses, with most coming through a “TIN Matching” method that did not verify ICE’s provided address beyond an automated zip-code proxy check.

The case remains active with appeal-related maneuvering still in play.

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