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IRS under Trump unlawfully shared taxpayer info with immigration authorities, court rules
- Appeals court upheld an injunction blocking an IRS policy that let the agency share taxpayers' addresses with ICE, ruling the practice violated federal law.
- The IRS had already turned over about 47,000 addresses and created an automated system that could process up to 1.28 million requests—sometimes using non‑standard codes instead of actual ZIPs, the court said.
- The Trump administration said the ruling hindered law enforcement, but the judge pointed to Congress and post‑Watergate privacy laws; privacy groups praised the decision.
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