Legal Opinion
Robert A. Aronson v. Internal Revenue Service, Robert A. Aronson v. Internal Revenue Service
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 10, 1992No. 91-2256, 91-2257PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BREYER, Chief Judge.
The government appeals a district court 767 F.Supp. 378 judgment requiring the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to provide Robert Aronson, a private tracer of lost taxpayers, with the last known street addresses of persons to whom the government owes tax refunds for the years 1981— 87. The district court held that the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”), 5 U.S.C. § 552, requires that disclosure. In our view, however, a different statute, a special tax statute that limits the disclosure of tax return information, permits the IRS not to disclose this information to private…
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