With this year's Tax Day coming up fast, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is urging American taxpayers to "act now" to file their individual tax returns, pay what they owe on their tax returns, or request an extension—before it is too late.

The stand-in boss of the IRS has walked out after just a month on the job after she was bypassed over a new plan to hand immigrants’ tax data to officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to agency insiders.

The acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service is planning to resign following the agency's data sharing agreement with the Department of Homeland Security to support the Trump administration's efforts to deport undocumented immigrants,

The head of the IRS doesn't want the agency targeting undocumented immigrants who pay their taxes so she's stepping down. FOX's Griff Jenkins has more.

"We wish Melanie well on her next endeavor," a Treasury spokesperson told BI. The IRS is set to soon undergo further workforce reductions.

The IRS and DHS have reached a data-sharing agreement to support the Trump administration's immigration enforcement agenda, according to a court filing Monday night.

The departure of Melanie Krause, who is expected to leave April 28, comes after a data-sharing agreement between the IRS and immigration authorities became official.

Employees at the Internal Revenue Service were offered deferred resignations, early retirements, and buyouts as the agency prepares to cut more staff.

A tax division attorney with the Department of Justice revealed the agreement in a Monday filing in a lawsuit against the Treasury Department.

The IRS was already dealing with a crisis as the under-staffed agency faced further cuts by Donald Trump, but the situation was made worse when a decision to use confidential taxpayer data to hunt for undocumented immigrants prompted the resignation of several top officials,