The interim chief of the internal tax service will resign following an agreement reached in the name of the agency that will see it sharing fiscal data on undocumented immigrants.
Melanie Krause, a commissioner of the IRS, who is the third person to serve as a boss since the beginning of the year, will pack her desk as part of the sacrifice of the Deferred Resignation Program, the Department of the Treasury announced Gardenday.
The news of his plans to leave the federal agency occurs less than one week before the deadline for individual tax declarations.
Krause decided to resign in an apparent protest to the actions of the Trump administration, sources told Washington Post.
“Melanie Krause has been leading the IRS through a moment of extraordinary change,” said a Treasury department spokesman to The Outlet, and added that the department was “in the midst of breaking the silos of data that it was also, and having, and having the path and way of the way on the way to the road to the road of the road of the road and the criminals of the bones to justice.
The Tax Collection Agency had just finished an agreement with the National Security Department to share taxpayers data to help immigration authority to identify undocumented immigrants.
The data exchange agreement was signed on Monday by the Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Besent, and the Secretary of National Security Kristi, Bypassing Krause as head of the IRS, which is part of the Treasury department, the Washington Post reported.
The agreement will allow the DHS to request information about migrants who already face deportation orders and who are under criminal investigation, with the IRS responsible for sharing the data of existing taxpayers.
Doug O’Donnell, the previous interim chief of the IRS, also resigned due to the attempt of the Treasury to sign a data exchange agreement with DHs in February.
The last head of the IRS confirmed by the Senate, Danny Wefel, left office on the first day of President Trump in office.
IRS lawyers said the data exchange agreement probably violates privacy laws, Washington Post reported.
But the Trump administration has argued that the agreement is a necessary step towards the government better than it works better.
“Under the leadership of President Trump, the Government is finally doing what it should do all the time: share information throughout the federal government to solve problems,” said DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin, Tesday.
Last Friday, the IRS begged a new round of mass job cuts to its workforce with the aim of eliminating 25% of its workforce, according to the reports.
With post cables.
