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IRS Investment in Palantir Technology
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Palantir is reportedly helping the IRS investigate financial crimes
In Brief Posted: 2:53 PM PDT · April 24, 2026 Image Credits:Photographer: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations office probe a variety of financial crimes in the U.S. for much of the last decade, The Intercept reported. The IRS has paid the firm $130 million since 2018 to use its data analysis software to pore over financial records for investigative purposes, the outlet reported citing public records detailing Palantir’s IRS contract that were obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight. It was previously known the IRS was using Palantir’s products, and that the agency sees the software as a way to automate and modernize audits. Last summer, it was also reported that Palantir was assisting DOGE, the “government efficiency” initiative launched by President Trump’s executive order with a project designed to access IRS records. However, the extent of the agency’s use of the company’s tools had not been previously reported. The software, Palantir’s Lead and Case Analytics platform, is being used to aggregate and analyze data across a variety of federal agencies. The software can find “connections from millions of records with thousands of links” between various databases, and the tool is particularly good at mapping human relationships and communications, according to the outlet. Earlier this week, the American Oversight Project sued the Trump administration for public records related to numerous federal agencies’ use of Palantir tools, including the IRS. TechCrunch has reached out to Palantir for more information and will update the article if the company responds. Topics Subscribe for the industry’s biggest tech news Latest in Government & Policy
Palantir Is Helping Trump's IRS Conduct "Massive-Scale" Data Mining
military contractor Palantir is helping the IRS analyze dozens of different data sets on Americans to investigate a broad range of financial crimes, according to records shared with The Intercept. Since 2018, the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation division has used Palantir’s Lead and Case Analytics platform to aggregate and analyze a sprawling list of sensitive federal databases and data sets. Public records detailing Palantir’s IRS contract, obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight and shared exclusively with The Intercept, reveal the immense volume of data plugged into the military contractor’s software. The LCA uses both Palantir’s Gotham and Foundry applications to facilitate “analysis of massive-scale data to find the needle in the hay stack,” the contract paperwork says. Documents indicate the IRS has paid Palantir over $130 million for these services to date. Palantir’s LCA is ostensibly directed toward cracking down on fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes. According to a 2024 agency privacy impact assessment, IRS “Special agents and investigative analysts … utilize the platform to find, analyze, and visualize connections between disparate sets of data to generate leads, identify schemes, uncover tax fraud, and conduct money laundering and forfeiture investigative activities.” The IRS use of the software, launched under Trump’s first term and expanded under Biden, is now in the hands of an IRS Criminal Investigations office that has drastically scaled back its pursuit of tax cheats and pivoted, under Trump’s direction, toward investigating “left-leaning groups,” the Wall Street Journal reported in October. “The real concern is the consolidation of vast amounts of sensitive personal data into a single system with minimal transparency — especially one built and operated by a contractor like Palantir, whose business model is premised on integrating data and expanding surveillance capabilities,” American Oversight director Chioma Chukwu said in a statement to The Intercept. “Its platforms have been used in deeply troubling contexts, from immigration enforcement to predictive policing, with persistent concerns about overreach, bias, and weak oversight.” Palantir did not respond to a request for comment, nor did the IRS. “The real concern is the consolidation of vast amounts of sensitive personal data into a single system with minimal transparency — especially one built and operated by a contractor like ...
Trump admin accused of violating FOIA over Palantir docs - Law & Crime
The filing contains a laundry list of dozens of such names and titles affiliated with the Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Internal Revenue Service, and the Social Security Administration. The lawsuit also lists several Palantir-related names and programs.
Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal ...
Met police in talks to buy Palantir AI tech for use in criminal investigations Posted 2026-04-22, The Guardian Headlines
