Obama-Appointed Court Panel Blocks IRS Data Sharing with ICE on Tax Privacy Grounds

A three-judge D.C. Circuit panel of Obama appointees blocked the IRS from sharing tens of thousands of taxpayer addresses with ICE, ruling the agency’s current data-sharing process likely violated federal tax-confidentiality law by often providing incomplete information; the panel upheld a lower-court injunction, highlighting ongoing tensions between immigration enforcement and taxpayer privacy and drawing mixed reactions over the ruling’s language.