Head Of IRS To Resign In Protest As Agency Inks Deal To Share Tax Data On Illegal Aliens With DHS

Posted • April 8, 2025: The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service will resign in the wake of a deal struck on behalf of the agency that will see it share tax data on undocumented immigrants. Melanie Krause, a commissioner at the IRS who is the third person to serve as its chief since the start of the year, will pack up her desk as part of the deferred resignation program offered by the Trump administration, the Treasury Department announced Tuesday. The news of her plans to leave the federal agency comes less than a week before the deadline for individual tax returns. Krause decided to resign in an apparent protest of the Trump administration’s actions, sources told the Washington Post. “Melanie Krause has been leading the IRS through a time of extraordinary change,” a Treasury Department spokesperson told the outlet, adding that the department was “in the midst of breaking down data silos that for too long have stood in the way of identifying waste, fraud, and abuse and bringing criminals to justice.” (…)

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