FOIA Suit Seeks Docs On Alleged IRS Disclosure Of Tax Info

By Yvonne Juris, Law360, Sept. 14, 2018

A conservative watchdog has slapped the government with a Freedom of Information Act suit in D.C. federal court, saying the U.S. Department of Justice has refused to turn over documents on allegations that the Internal Revenue Service shared 1.1 million pages of confidential information on tax-exempt groups with the FBI.

Since filing its first of three FOIA requests in October 2016, the Cause of Action Institute has not received any documents from the Justice Department's Office of Information Policy or the Office of the Inspector General regarding 21 compact discs of tax data the IRS allegedly shared with the DOJ, the group said in its Thursday complaint.

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