Interim IRS commissioner plans to resign after a data exchange agreement with immigration authorities
The Interim Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service plans to resign after the Agency for the Agency’s data exchange agreement with the National Security Department to support the efforts of the Trump administration to deport undocumented immigrants, three sources familiar with their plans told ABC News.
Melanie Krause is the third leader of the agency to resign this year; The commissioner confirmed by the Senate, Danny Werfel, resigned from his role in the day of the inauguration, less than two years in his five -year term.
A month later, the interim commissioner Doug O’Donnell, who spent almost four decades in the IRS, retired amid the concerns about the administration of the Trump administration.
A Treasury spokesman also confirmed Krause’s plans to leave the agency in a statement to ABC News.
“Melanie Krause has been leading the IRS through an era of extraordinary change. As we focus on modernization and reorganize the agency to better serve the taxpayer, we are also in the midst of breaking the data of the data that for too long we have been in the way of identifying the waste, fraud and abuse and bringing criminals to criminals. Endeavour.”
Krause did not respond to a request to comment on ABC News.
A signal for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is observed outside its building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Other senior agency officials are considering leaving the agency after the new data exchange agreement and are concerned about their legality.
Some discovered their completion, after weeks of negotiations, only after Fox News reported it on Tuesday morning, sources told ABC News.
“People in the IRS have a strong sense of pride for tax administration and the protection of taxpayers’ rights, and everything that happens is not aligned [with that]”A source told ABC News.
The Treasury Secretary, Scott Besent, signed the agreement with DHS on behalf of the IRS, in accordance with the copy written of the agreement included in a judicial presentation.
Section 6103 of the Federal Fiscal Code requires that the IRS maintain the individual information of the confidential taxpayers with certain limited exceptions, even with the agencies of application of the law “for the investigation and prosecution of the criminal laws not imposed” with the approval of a court, according to the website of the agency.
Current and previous agency officials also worry that the new policy may affect tax collection and discourage undocumented immigrant workers who pay taxes for a variety of reasons.
The agency has said that it will continue to protect the privacy of taxpayers’ data under the new agreement.
