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IRS Pays Palantir $130 Million Since 2018 for Data Software in Financial Crime Probes
Palantir has supported the IRS Criminal Investigations office in probing U.S. financial crimes for much of the last decade. The agency has paid the company $130 million for its data analysis software since 2018, according to public records. The software aggregates data across federal agencies and maps human relationships.
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Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigations office probe a variety of financial crimes in the United States for much of the last decade, TechCrunch reported. The IRS has paid Palantir $130 million since 2018 for its data analysis software, according to public records detailing the contract that were obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight.
The IRS has used Palantir's software since at least 2018, and the agency sees the software as a way to automate and modernize audits.
Last summer, it was 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. 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.
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.
