Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Criminal Investigation investigate a variety of financial crimes in the US over the past decade, The Intercept informed.
The outlet cited public records detailing Palantir’s IRS contract, reporting that the IRS has paid the firm $130 million since 2018 to use its data analysis software to scour financial records for investigative purposes, which were obtained by the nonprofit watchdog group American Oversight.
It was known in advance that the IRS was using the Palantir’s products, and the agency sees the software as a way Automate and modernize audits. last summer, It was also told Palantir was assisting DOGE, a “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 equipment was not previously reported.
The software, Palantir’s Lead and Case Analytics platform, is being used across various federal agencies to collect and analyze data. According to the outlet, the software can find “connections to millions of records with thousands of links” between different databases, and the tool is particularly good at mapping human relationships and communication.
Earlier this week, the American Oversight Project filed a lawsuit against The Trump administration requested public records related to the use of Palantir tools by several federal agencies, including the IRS. TechCrunch has contacted Palantir for more information and will update the article if the company responds.
