How the IRS Snoops on the Innocent

The Justices say the tax agency can secretly get bank records for a debtor’s lawyers.

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Kim Strassel, Jason Riley and Dan Henninger. Images: Bay Area News Group/AP/Zuma Press/iStock Photo Composite: Mark Kelly

Republicans have made political hay out of President Biden’s plan to supersize the IRS, and here’s another bumper crop: The Supreme Court held this week that revenue agents who are chasing a debt have almost unbounded power to secretly obtain bank records on people in a delinquent taxpayer’s orbit, even his lawyers. Reversing this is up to Congress.

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