Palantir has been assisting the Internal Revenue Service’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation in investigating various financial crimes in the United States for the past 10 years, The Intercept reported.
Citing public documents obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight detailing IRS contracts with Palantir, the outlet reported that the IRS has paid Palantir $130 million since 2018 to use the company’s data analysis software to review financial records for investigative purposes.
It has long been known that the IRS uses Palantir’s products and that the agency views the software as a means to automate and modernize its audits. Last summer, it was reported that Palantir was supporting DOGE, a government efficiency initiative launched by President Trump’s executive order, in a project aimed at accessing IRS records. However, the scope of the agency’s use of the company’s tools has not been previously reported.
This software, Palantir’s Lead and Case Analytics platform, is used to aggregate and analyze data across various federal agencies. The report said the software can find “connections from millions of records with thousands of links” between different databases, and the tool is particularly good at mapping relationships and communications.
Earlier this week, American Oversight sued the Trump administration seeking public records regarding the use of the Palantir tool by numerous federal agencies, including the IRS. TechCrunch has reached out to Palantir for more information and will update this article if we hear back from Palantir.
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