Top GOP Tax-Writers Press Treasury on Data Leaks to ProPublica

The two top Republican tax-writers in Congress still want answers from Treasury on how a news outlet got private tax information on some of the wealthiest Americans.

• Senate Finance Committee ranking member Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and House Ways and Means Committee ranking member Kevin Brady (R-Texas) are pressing the Treasury Department again to identify how the information ended up with ProPublica, which has published a series of articles based on the tax data.
• “Please identify whether Treasury and the IRS continue to maintain that both do not know even whether there has been a threat of a data breach at ...