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Re:Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:02PM (#20346221)
It isn’t a huge secret: https://www.irs.gov/government-entities/federal-state-local-...

> IRC 6103(i)(1) provides that, pursuant to court order, return information may be shared with law enforcement agencies for investigation and prosecution of non-tax criminal laws.

They need a warrant, the IRS can’t proactively share tax info with law enforcement agencies for non-tax law reasons.

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Re:Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to... by cr0sh on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:38PM (#20346563)
> They need a warrant, the IRS can’t proactively share tax info with law enforcement agencies for non-tax law reasons.

Unless the US Congress asks for them.

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Re:Engineer found guilty of trying to sell military chips to... by seanmcdirmid on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @01:44PM (#20346635)
That is another law, but yes.
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