The Internal Revenue Service improperly withheld information from requesters after Freedom of Information Act requests were filed, according to a report from the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.
Auditors evaluated a sample of 70 FOIA requests and found that the agency improperly withheld information in 10 of these cases.
The IRS withheld publicly available information as well as information taxpayers wanted regarding their own cases such as tax information and examination reports.
“Although the IRS properly released thousands of pages from these documents, taxpayer rights may have been violated because the IRS improperly withheld information from the requestors,” the auditors said. – READ MORE
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