January 30, 2023
Bloomberg quoted Tax Controversy Leader David Shuster in an article about former president Donald Trump’s Freedom of Information Act requests of the IRS.
Bloomberg
Excerpt:
Tax lawyers often use FOIA requests to obtain information about internal deliberations over penalties, the appeals process and other tax matters at the IRS, said David Shuster, the tax controversy leader at accounting firm Marcum. But it’s very rare for the FOIA request to come from a sitting president, he said. Shuster also said the most the IRS has ever charged him to process a records request is about $8.
