A U.S. appeals court has upheld an injunction that blocks an Internal Revenue Service (IRS) policy allowing the sharing of taxpayer addresses with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), ruling that the practice, implemented under the Trump administration, violated federal law. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the IRS disclosed approximately 47,000 taxpayer addresses to ICE as part of efforts to expand immigration enforcement.

The court’s decision centered on the IRS’s adoption of a procedure that permitted ICE to obtain taxpayer information by providing a five- or nine-digit number in an address field, even if the number was not a valid ZIP code. U.S. Circuit Judge Cornelia Pillard, writing for the majority, stated that this procedure violated federal law in multiple ways, “most egregiously” by failing to require ICE to provide an actual address for a taxpayer as legally mandated. Pillard also noted that the practice “automates the review of millions of records without any individual review or any other means of ensuring compliance with the legal prerequisites to releasing each individual taxpayer’s information.” [SOURCE]

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