Behind the Story: Investigating the Faults in the IRS’s FOIA System

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Tax Notes chief correspondent Amanda Athanasiou discusses her recent investigation into the IRS's handling of Freedom of Information Act requests and trends from two decades of agency data.

For more, check out the Tax Notes coverage of the IRS FOIA system:

• IRS FOIA Backlog Expected to Grow
• FOIA Appeals Fail So Often, Taxpayers See a Broken System
• The IRS Is Getting Fewer FOIAs. Why Aren’t Response Times Improving?

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This episode is sponsored by the University of California Irvine School of Law Graduate Tax Program. For more information, visit law.uci.edu/gradtax.

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Credits
Host: David D. Stewart
Executive Producers: Jasper B. Smith, Paige Jones
Producers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes
Audio Engineers: Jordan Parrish, Peyton Rhodes