IRS Surrenders More Info on Tax Info Sharing Agreement with ICE

The IRS, saying it was acting “in the spirit of transparency and cooperation,” has handed over to groups suing it a pair of previously withheld documents related to its taxpayer information sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The disclosures, were filed Monday at the the US District Court for the District of Columbia, One involves a communication from the then-acting IRS chief counsel concerning some deficiencies in an ICE information request. The other, an information technology memorandum, addresses the progress of service’s response to ICE’s mass data request just more than a week ...