Palantir has helped the Internal Revenue Service’s Criminal Investigation office investigate various financial crimes in the United States over the past decade, The Intercept informed.
The IRS has paid the firm $130 million since 2018 to use its data analysis software to examine financial records for investigative purposes.
Formerly known as the IRS using The agency sees Palantir’s products and software as a way automation and modernization of audits. last summer was also informed about Palantir helped 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 tools was not previously disclosed.
The software, Palantir’s Lead and Case Analytics platform, is used to collect and analyze data across various federal agencies. The software can find “connections from millions of records to thousands of links” between different databases, and the tool is particularly good at mapping human relationships and communications.
Earlier this week, American Oversight sued Trump administration for public records about the use of Palantir tools by multiple federal agencies, including the IRS. TechCrunch has reached out to Palantir for more information and will update the article if the company responds.
