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 addr…