WASHINGTON, March 31 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and her colleagues in the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) led 115 House and Senate Democrats in filing a bicameral amicus brief standing up for taxpayer privacy in the case Center for Taxpayer Rights v. IRS, currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
The Democratic lawmakers argued that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) implementation of bulk data transfers to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for immigration enforcement violates the privacy protections of taxpayers enshrined by Congress in section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code.
"The IRS's decision to share taxpayer da...