The watchdog also encouraged the SBA to address inefficiencies in the Disaster Loan Program by pursuing a new legal authority to secure taxpayer consent for applications.

Democratic lawmakers pressed Frank Bisignano on the IRS-ICE data-sharing agreement. The CEO said the tax agency is prioritizing risk management and touted its AI work.

The tax agency’s process for identity matching violated the Internal Revenue Code, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a Thursday court filing.

The legislation would make the free electronic filling tool a permanent program and bar the Treasury secretary from sabotaging it through other agreements.

The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals said immigrants’ rights groups were unlikely to succeed on claims that the data-sharing pact violated tax code or circumvented agency rule-making.

A declaration from the tax agency’s chief risk and control officer revealed incomplete data requests from ICE that the IRS fulfilled, violating an MOU and potentially federal…

It’s the second ruling in favor of plaintiffs against the IRS-ICE data-sharing agreement, this one citing the “high potential for misidentification” and improper agency rulemaking.

A letter led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., hammers Treasury’s “refusal to answer basic questions” about the pact and requests responses from Scott Bessent by Feb. 16.

The tax agency accounts for nearly half of Treasury’s AI use cases, with a heavy focus on IT and some fraud-fighting tech, but no results for “collections”…

In an annual report to Congress, Erin M. Collins details myriad IT acquisition issues the tax agency faces as it attempts to shift away from paper-based processes.