The IRS has to turn over a wider scope of seized asset records under the Freedom of Information Act after a federal district court judge sided with a libertarian group that requested the documents.
The dispute stems from a 2015 FOIA request from the Institute for Justice, a libertarian public interest law firm, which requested records from the agency’s Asset Forfeiture Tracking and Retrieval System. The system is used to monitor IRS-seized assets from private citizens.
The Institute sued after it disagreed with the IRS’ response, opposing its many redactions.
The IRS will need to turn over ...
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