Melanie Klaus was on the committee for about a month.
Deputy Commissioner Melanie Kraus is no longer with the IRS, a spokesman for the IRS’s Department of Treasury, the parent agency of the IRS.
“Melanie Kraus has been leading the IRS through times of extraordinary change,” the spokesman told the press in a statement. “I hope Melanie makes the next effort,” the spokesman later added.
The spokesman also said, “As we focus on modernizing IT and reorganize our agencies to provide taxpayer-friendly services, we are also in the process of breaking down data silos that have been standing for a long time in ways to identify waste, fraud and abuse and lead criminals to justice.”
Klaus and the IRS did not return requests for comment.
“Because public safety and terrorist threats may exist, sharing information between agencies is essential to identify people in our country, to include violent offenders, to help us neutralize them, scrub these individuals from voter roles, and to identify the public interest these aliens use at US taxpayer fees.”
Critics denounced the move.
Federal law primarily prohibits the IRS from sharing confidential taxpayer information, with exceptions that include information used in federal criminal investigations.
A Treasury spokesman told the press in a statement that the contract was “signed under the long-standing authorities granted by Congress.”
Jack Phillips contributed to this report.
