Public Citizen is suing the Trump regime over one of the most insidious parts of its inhumane mass deportation scheme.
- Like other workers, undocumented workers are required to pay income taxes.
- The IRS is legally required to treat their tax records, like those of every other taxpayer, as private and confidential — unless disclosure is specifically allowed by law.
- No law permits the IRS to disclose tax records for immigration enforcement purposes.
- But the Trump regime nonetheless wants to access tax data — including names, current addresses, and information about dependents — to support its mass deportation agenda.
- This lawsuit seeks to ensure that the IRS continues to protect taxpayer privacy, as required by law.
This lawsuit is not just about the rights of undocumented workers.
Congress enacted taxpayer privacy laws in response to misuse of IRS records during the presidency of Richard Nixon. If the Trump regime is allowed to carry out this particular invasion of taxpayer privacy — in flagrant violation of the law — it won’t stop there. Before you know it, millions and millions of Americans could be subject to illegal invasions of privacy and government surveillance.
It’s a page right out of the authoritarian playbook.
By the way, this is the 8th lawsuit we’ve filed so far against the administration since Trump returned to power.
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