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 Palantirâs IRS contract that were obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight.
It was previously known the IRS was using Palantirâs 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 âgovernment efficiencyâ initiative launched by President Trumpâs executive order with a project designed to access IRS records. However, the extent of the agencyâs use of the companyâs tools had not been previously reported.
The software, Palantirâs Lead and Case Analytics platform, is being used to aggregate and analyze data across a variety of federal agencies. The software can find âconnections from millions of records with thousands of linksâ between various databases, and the tool is particularly good at mapping human relationships and communications, according to the outlet. Earlier this week, American Oversight sued the Trump administration for public records related to numerous federal agenciesâ use of Palantir tools, including the IRS.
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