WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
Washington, D.C. - U.S. Senator Ron Wyden said today he is leading his Democratic colleagues in calling on the IRS to reverse a proposed rule that would, for the first time, add citizenship and work authorization questions to 2026 tax forms, in an effort to intimidate immigrants into not filing tax returns, and raising privacy concerns over the handling of private taxpayer data.
In a letter to IRS CEO Frank Bisignano, Wyden and the other senators described how adding a new immigration question serves no clear tax purpose and could result in a loss of $300 billion in tax receipts. Wyden has been a leading voice in the Senate sounding the alarm on the Trump administrat...