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FOIA News: IRS improves FOIA performance, finds TIGTA audit

FOIA News (2024)Allan BlutsteinComment

On April 11, 2024, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration published an audit that was performed to determine whether the Internal Revenue Service properly withheld records pursuant to Exemption 7 or section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code between October 1, 2022, and March 31, 2023. TIGTA found that the IRS properly invoked Exemption 7 in 98 of 99 requests sampled. TIGTA found no errors in 10 requests reviewed involving section 6103.

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