Legal Opinion
Elec. Privacy Info. Ctr. v. Internal Revenue Serv.
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided December 18, 2018No. 17-5225PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Karen LeCraft Henderson, Circuit Judge:
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) collects more than money. It acquires and maintains a reservoir of sensitive information about taxpayers. And time was, the President could-for any reason or no reason at all-order the IRS to make that sensitive information public. The arrangement worked out fine for decades. Then the Nixon administration compiled a list of political enemies and ordered the IRS to harass them. The resulting scandal prompted the Congress to enact sweeping legislation to protect taxpayer privacy. The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) now…
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