Remember the White House sharing Koch tax documents? http://t.co/MwuavG8okK
— David Freddoso (@freddoso) October 1, 2014◼ Court says TIGTA must process FOIA on White House access to tax records - Mark Tapscott/Washington Examiner
A federal judge ruled Monday that the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration cannot withhold information on whether the White House received confidential taxpayer information by citing certain exemptions under the Freedom of Information Act.
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Amy Berman Jackson granted Cause of Action's motion for a summary judgement, thus requiring TIGTA to provide documents the group requested in 2012 concerning correspondence between the IRS and the White House....
Federal law makes it illegal for government employees to disclose confidential tax return information, but the president is allowed an exception. Section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code "provides that upon written request by the president, signed by him personally, the secretary [of the Treasury] shall furnish returns and return information to the president, or to such employee or employees of the White House Office as the president may designate by name in such request," Cause of Action said in its court filings.
The nonprofit sued under the FOIA after TIGTA refused to provide any such documents, citing several exemptions under the FOIA. The Oct.9, 2012, Cause of Action FOIA was prompted by media reports in 2010 that former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Austan Goolsbee, claimed tax code violations by the Koch brothers, the Kansas-based libertarian industrialists.
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