IRS may draft cops to catch tax cheats, official tells Senate

IRS may draft cops to catch tax cheats, official tells Senate:

'via Blog this'While the Obama Administration curtailed its involvement with local police agencies to enforce immigration law and capture criminal aliens, that same administration wishes local cops to help the Internal Revenue Service enforcement tax laws, according to testimony given before a panel of U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday.

Steven Miller, deputy IRS commissioner for services and enforcement, told the Senators on the Finance Committee that the increase in tax fraud, tax evasion and identity theft is a factor in the Internal Revenue Service’s senior management considering using local cops to enforce some tax laws and as a result sharing tax return information with them. 

Tax return information is normally treated as top secret by IRS management and staff, but the IRS is considering a special program in which suspicious tax files may be shared with city and state police departments.