Court blocks IRS policy that shared taxpayer addresses with ICE

Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS, NO. 1:25-CV-00457. United States District Court For The District Of Columbia.

A federal court halted the IRS’s new data-sharing policy after finding that the agency likely violated §6103 and the APA when it disclosed about 47,000 taxpayer addresses to ICE.

Holding

The court held that the IRS’s Address-Sharing Policy is final agency action subject to APA review and that plaintiffs showed a substantial likelihood of success on their …