Acting Internal Commissioner Revenue Service plans to resign after the agreement to share agency data with the Department of Domestic Security to support Trump’s administrative efforts to deport immigrants who are not documents, three sources who are familiar with their plans to tell ABC News.
Melanie Krause is the third leader of the agent who resigned this year; The commissioner confirmed by the Danny Werfel Senate resigned from his role on the inauguration day, less than two years in his term of office for five years.
One month later, Acting Commissioner Doug O’Donnell, who spent nearly four decades in IRS, retired amid concerns about the management of Trump’s administrative agency.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Finance also confirmed the Krause plan to leave the agency in a statement to ABC News.
“Melanie Krause has led the IRS through an extraordinary change. Because we focus on modernization and rearrange the agency to serve taxpayers better, we are also in the midst of breaking up Silo data that has hampered too long justice in a longer way. Endeavor,” the spokesman said.
Krause did not respond to requests to comment from ABC News.
The sign for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was seen outside the building on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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Other senior agent officials are considering leaving an agent following a new data sharing agreement and worry about their legality.
Some know about the finalization, after weeks of negotiations, only after being reported by Fox News Tuesday morning, Sumber told ABC News.
“People in the IRS have a strong sense of pride in tax administration and protect the rights of taxpayers, and everything that happens is not in harmony [with that]”Said one source to ABC News.
Minister of Finance Scott Bessent signed an agreement with DHS on behalf of IRS, according to a copy of the deleted agreement included in the court submission.
Part 6103 of the federal tax code requires that IRS maintains individual taxpayers with certain limited exceptions, including law enforcement agencies “for investigation and prosecution of non-tax criminal laws” with the approval of the court, according to the agency website.
The current agent and ex’s officials are also worried that this new policy can have an impact on tax collection and prevent immigrant workers from documenting tax from various reasons.
The agency said it would continue to protect the privacy of taxpayer data based on the New Testament.