IRS chief quits after immigration data-sharing deal

[Missouri_Mike]

Third IRS chief since the new admin. This one quit when the Admin started using confidential IRS tax information to target potentially illegal immigrants.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/irs-acting-head-to-resign-over-deal-to-send-immigrants-tax-data-to-ice.html

The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service plans to resign, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday, a move that comes after the agency struck a controversial deal to share tax data on undocumented immigrants with federal agents.

Commissioner Melanie Krause will become the tax-collecting agency's third leader to exit since the start of the year, a chaotic period marked by the firing of thousands of its employees mandated by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.




Her departure also comes amid the busiest time of the year for the IRS, with the filing deadline for most individual tax returns falling on April 15.

On Monday, the IRS and Department of Homeland Security finalized an agreement under which taxpayer data will be provided to federal immigration authorities to help them locate undocumented immigrants.

Officials with the Treasury Department, of which the IRS is a part, had largely bypassed Krause in recent days in seeking to give immigration authorities access to the private taxpayer information, the Washington Post reported.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the data-sharing agreement on Monday, even though IRS attorneys advised that the deal likely violated privacy laws, the Washington Post said.

"Melanie Krause has been leading the IRS through a time of extraordinary change," a Treasury spokesperson said in an emailed statement, confirming her resignation.




Without mentioning the data agreement, the spokesperson added that the agency was "in the midst of breaking down data silos that for too long have stood in the way of identifying waste, fraud, and abuse and bringing criminals to justice."

I’ll try to give a shit.

 

[Foxfyre]

Third IRS chief since the new admin. This one quit when the Admin started using confidential IRS tax information to target potentially illegal immigrants.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/irs-acting-head-to-resign-over-deal-to-send-immigrants-tax-data-to-ice.html

The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service plans to resign, the Treasury Department said on Tuesday, a move that comes after the agency struck a controversial deal to share tax data on undocumented immigrants with federal agents.

Commissioner Melanie Krause will become the tax-collecting agency's third leader to exit since the start of the year, a chaotic period marked by the firing of thousands of its employees mandated by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.




Her departure also comes amid the busiest time of the year for the IRS, with the filing deadline for most individual tax returns falling on April 15.

On Monday, the IRS and Department of Homeland Security finalized an agreement under which taxpayer data will be provided to federal immigration authorities to help them locate undocumented immigrants.

Officials with the Treasury Department, of which the IRS is a part, had largely bypassed Krause in recent days in seeking to give immigration authorities access to the private taxpayer information, the Washington Post reported.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem signed the data-sharing agreement on Monday, even though IRS attorneys advised that the deal likely violated privacy laws, the Washington Post said.

"Melanie Krause has been leading the IRS through a time of extraordinary change," a Treasury spokesperson said in an emailed statement, confirming her resignation.




Without mentioning the data agreement, the spokesperson added that the agency was "in the midst of breaking down data silos that for too long have stood in the way of identifying waste, fraud, and abuse and bringing criminals to justice."

Elon Musk mandates nothing. He recommends but has no authority to enforce his recommendations. The department heads do have authority within the law to act on his recommendations. And so far his recommendations have been pretty much spot on.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

Where in the Constitution are the limits on the size of the government?

Instead of trying to pound it into your brainwashed mind here’s all you need to know. You believed there was a constitutional right to abortion your entire life. Still do.

 

[Crepitus]

Instead of trying to pound it into your brainwashed mind here’s all you need to know. You believe there was a constitutional right to abortion your entire life. Still do.

So you can't find it either.

I figured.

 

[LAUGHatLEFTISTS]

So you can't find it either.

I figured.

That went right over your head. I’m not surprised.

 

[Foxfyre]

Where in the Constitution are the limits on the size of the government?

I don't really expect you to read this if you even have the reading comprehension to do so. But it explains how the very structure of the government the Founders gave us naturally limits the size the government was intended to be. Which was small, efficient, effective and given only those powers necessary to provide for the national defense, promote the general welfare, and allow the various individual sovereign states to function together as one nation.

How Does the Constitution Limit Federal Power? - U.S. Constitution.net

Historical Context and Framers' Intent The Framers' views on limited government were shaped by their experiences under British rule and their study of political philosophy. The colonists' struggles with laws like the Intolerable Acts instilled a distrust of centralized authority. Influential...

www.usconstitution.net

I am certain that there is not a single member of the signatories on the original Constitution or of those who would later ratify it who would not be absolutely horrified at the enormous, unfathomable, unmanageable bureaucracy that the federal government has become.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

IRS tax information is like HIPAA, its extremely confidential. Remember when you and Orange Jesus lost their minds when tax info was slipped out?

If its legal, I don't care. Is it legal is the question.

Doxing the Un-docs

"Confidential" doesn't apply to people who have no right to be here, and no other rights whatsoever.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Which words did you not understand? They have existing deportation orders. If they are still the country they have committed a Federal crime.

They are also going after people who don't have such orders, Rawley. Did you not know that.

 

[Rawley]

They are also going after people who don't have such orders, Rawley. Did you not know that.

Of course they are. But they are not getting IRS data on them.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Of course they are. But they are not getting IRS data on them.

They were trying to. And that's with IRS secretary said, "Fuck you, you fascists, I quit."

I doubt any of us want those black shirts going willy nilly through you stuff.

Tahuyaman "is a libertarian nihilist" whether true or not. "Let's see what we can find."

 

[AZrailwhale]

Insanity is government is likely to lead us into total authoritarian fascism.

Wrong, stupid rules like this were directly responsible for the 9/11 attacks. FBI intelligence knew what was going on, but couldn’t cross the imaginary line between it and the Law Enforcement FBI. Now the IRS has been refusing to allow the FBI and Immigration access to the multiple millions of duplicate tax forms submitted against stolen or bogus SSANs.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Of course they are. But they are not getting IRS data on them.

They were trying to. And that's with IRS secretary said, "Fuck you, you fascists, I quit."

I doubt any of us want those black shirts going willy nilly through you stuff.

Tahuyaman "is a libertarian nihilist" whether true or not. "Let's see what we can find."

Wrong, stupid rules like this were directly responsible for the 9/11 attacks. FBI intelligence knew what was going on, but couldn’t cross the imaginary line between it and the Law Enforcement FBI. Now the IRS has been refusing to allow the FBI and Immigration access to the multiple millions of duplicate tax forms submitted against stolen or bogus SSANs.

There are no such things, Rawley. You have no evidence but MAGA "but, but, but."

 

[AZrailwhale]

LOL, this is all internally created, nothing to do with Democrats.

Wake the fuck up and smell the coffee, kid.

The vast majority of federal employees are democrats. They know which side their bread is buttered on. The democrats are the ones insisting on a large, growing, intrusive federal government.

 

[Rawley]

They were trying to. And that's with IRS secretary said, "Fuck you, you fascists, I quit."

? The deal between Besset and Noem had already been concluded, limiting assistance to criminal investigation of those already with deportation orders, But she, like seemingly your entire cult resists every effort to deport illegals, particularly criminal illegals.

I doubt any of us want those black shirts going willy nilly through you stuff.

Tahuyaman "is a libertarian nihilist" whether true or not. "Let's see what we can find."

WTF are talking about?

 

[AZrailwhale]

IRS tax information is like HIPAA, its extremely confidential. Remember when you and Orange Jesus lost their minds when tax info was slipped out?

If its legal, I don't care. Is it legal is the question.

Tax details can’t be used to prosecute other crimes, nothing says the address of residence and employment of people using stolen SSANs.

 

[AZrailwhale]

They were trying to. And that's with IRS secretary said, "Fuck you, you fascists, I quit."

I doubt any of us want those black shirts going willy nilly through you stuff.

Tahuyaman "is a libertarian nihilist" whether true or not. "Let's see what we can find."

There are no such things, Rawley. You have no evidence but MAGA "but, but, but."

Go back and read the 9/11 investigation report. Back then there was a wall between intelligence gathering and LEOs in the FBI.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Tax details can’t be used to prosecute other crimes, nothing says the address of residence and employment of people using stolen SSANs.

You have to have some evidence, and the IRS chief was saying they did not, they just wanted to troll.

 

[Crepitus]

That went right over your head. I’m not surprised.

Only in yours, kid,

 

[Crepitus]

I don't really expect you to read this if you even have the reading comprehension to do so. But it explains how the very structure of the government the Founders gave us naturally limits the size the government was intended to be. Which was small, efficient, effective and given only those powers necessary to provide for the national defense, promote the general welfare, and allow the various individual sovereign states to function together as one nation.

How Does the Constitution Limit Federal Power? - U.S. Constitution.net

Historical Context and Framers' Intent The Framers' views on limited government were shaped by their experiences under British rule and their study of political philosophy. The colonists' struggles with laws like the Intolerable Acts instilled a distrust of centralized authority. Influential...

www.usconstitution.net

I am certain that there is not a single member of the signatories on the original Constitution or of those who would later ratify it who would not be absolutely horrified at the enormous, unfathomable, unmanageable bureaucracy that the federal government has become.

Quote the language.

I'll wait.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

The Amendment process, the force of history, and SCOTUS all have overriden the Founders' desires.

The great majority of the population has no intent to live that way.