US tax agency broke privacy law ‘approximately 42,695 times’, judge says

A federal judge has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service violated its code by giving a US immigration agency confidential taxpayer data.

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A federal judge in the United States has ruled that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information “approximately 42,695 times” to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

In a decision issued on Thursday, US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found that the IRS had erroneously shared the taxpayer information of thousands of people, in apparent violation of the Internal Revenue Code.