Third Director of Taxes in the United States leave because of disagreement with Trump

Melanie Krause, who acts as a head of the US Tax Service (IRS), plans to resign at the busiest period of the year, having failed to comply with her disagreement to access the Ministry of Internal Security and other institutions to the IRS personal data bases.

She will leave the post on April 28, thus becoming the third director of the service since Donald Trump has returned to the White House, which is considered unprecedented.

The news was reported by the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal, according to which Crause is also disagreed with decisions of other parts of the Trump team affecting the service and its people, which it fails to influence. « I don’t think we’ve seen anything similar in IRS, » said a Washington Post source.

According to Wall Street Journal, Chief Financier Teresa Hunter and Cathleen Waters is also leaving.

On Monday, the Ministry of Finance signed an agreement with the Ministry of Interior Security through the head of Krause so that immigration authorities have access to private information on taxpayers in search of data on immigrants without documents. Doge, where Ilon Musk works, wanted to enter the IRS systems to search for fraud with social and other payments, as well as to conduct dramatic redundancies in the tax agents, major overhaul of technological infrastructure and to set long -term IRS priorities.

The position of IRS lawyers is that the deal from Monday, which Krause learned from the media, probably violates the law of privacy.

According to Donald Trump’s vision of management, there has recently been a meeting with tax IT engineers to discuss the construction of an intergovernmental data sharing system that will allow agencies to use personal tax information, but it is forbidden to do even with other government agencies.

Under the terms of the Monday Agreement, employees of immigration and customs authorities must provide the name and address of the target person, as well as the specific reason why the disclosure of personal information may be relevant to a criminal investigation. The procedure does not require a court decision. Incorrect disclosure of tax information is punished by imprisonment and solid fines. Taxpayers whose privacy is violated are entitled to monetary compensation.

« She no longer feels like a position where she can influence decision -making, » a Washington Post source, familiar with the situation, said. « And (she believes) that some of the decisions that are being made now are things that IRS can never recover from. »

Krause was the IRS Chief Operations Officer before becoming an acting manager on February 28. Her predecessor, Doug O’Donnell, retired instead of conflict with Doge and employees of immigration services who wanted extensive access to confidential personal data of taxpayers. O’Donnell replaced Danny Werfel, appointed by Biden Commissioner of IRS, who hoped to stay in the post during Trump’s term. But Trump has announced plans to fire him and attract the former congressman and auctioner Billy Long, a republican legislator with six terms without experience in the sector. He has not yet gone through the Senate approval hearing.

Dozens of information technology and cybersecurity employees at IRS have been put on leave. About 7,000 employees were cut in February, with more abbreviations being announced last week.