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The IRS Has 1,124 Tax Data Deals. It Still Cannot Fully Map Them

A watchdog report says the IRS knows taxpayer data is being shared widely, but still lacks one clean system for tracking every agreement.

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Larry Olson
July 07, 2026

Taxpayer data is supposed to be locked down. TIGTA just found the IRS still cannot fully map every agreement that lets federal tax information move outside the agency. That is the kind of control gap clients actually understand.

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