Potential historic agreement between the IRS and Immigration Enforcement (ICE) can be proposed Illegal immigration One expert said it was in a difficult position.
“This will prevent these taxpayers from even filing archives, so it does make them really put them between rocks and tough places,” Adam Brewer, a federal tax expert who works for AB tax law, told Fox News Digital.
These comments appear when the IRS and Ice deal is about to allow ICE to submit the names and addresses of illegal immigrants to the IRS Immigration tax records and provide the current address information to the Immigration Bureau.
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President Donald Trump continues to work hard to quickly deport illegal immigrants. (Getty Image)
However, some long-time IRS employees expressed concern about the deal, believing that tax agencies have long guaranteed to keep records in exchange for illegal immigrants filing tax returns, and that they need laws even if they are illegally in the country.
The draft agreement between the IRS and ICE will authorize verification that “criminal investigation” violates immigration laws, thus expanding the narrow definition of IRS privacy exemption that allows the use of taxpayer data in criminal investigations.
This deal is the president Donald Trump Continue to work to speed up deportation efforts, following one of the main commitments he set in the campaign.
According to Brewer, extending the definition of criminal investigations to those who enter the country illegally would be an “unprecedented” step for the IRS.
President Donald Trump promises to quickly deport illegal immigrants during the 2024 campaign. (Julia Bonavita/Fox News Numbers)
“It’s not uncommon to get the IRS to participate in a criminal investigation,” Brewer said. “Historically, they’ve done a lot of information sharing, and the DEA can fight drug proceeds, these types of things. I think the way I’m looking at it is, if illegal immigration is a crime in itself, if you look at it through that range, then, yes, that’s pretty unprecedented.”
He added: “It feels like the bias we’ve known for years… If you share information with the IRS, it stops.”
Brewer believes the agreement could also undermine the credibility of the IRS, which builds trust by strictly following privacy regulations.
“If any government agency says, ‘Hey, DMV will start handing over your address to ICE, that’s true.’ You’ll reduce the number of people who register a vehicle or renew their driver’s license.
Brewer notes that many illegal immigrants rely on proposing Tax Return As a way to help gain legal status, but if shared records of the potential for deportation can prevent them from going through the entire process.
The IRS has traditionally kept most tax records strictly confidential. (Samuel Corum/Bloomberg by Getty Image)
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“The IRS knows that Ice knows these tax returns are necessary, and now they do give up a lot of rejections in front of taxpayers,” Brewer said.
But Brewer also acknowledged that in some cases, the information provided by the IRS may prove to be a key missing link for immigration authorities, noting that the IRS has long assisted other law enforcement agencies in other criminal matters.
“If someone just filed a 2024 tax return last month, the information at that address would be more accurate or more likely to be accurate than some of the immigration documents they filed last year,” Brewer said. “If we have information from a department, you don’t want ice to spend a lot of time and resources trying to track someone…just for efficiency, we do want government agencies to share information.”
