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From: TimF6/23/2014 10:01:30 PM
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“The dog ate my e-mails” may work for the IRS, but it doesn’t for the rest of us
By Jonathan H. Adler June 20

One reason many are infuriated by the Internal Revenue Service’s cavalier attitude toward the loss of Lois Lerner’s e-mails (and those of at least six other relevant IRS personnel) is that the IRS would hardly stand for equivalent conduct by taxpayers in the context of an audit. As The Economist wrote:
If your taxes are being audited and you tell the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that you just so happen to have lost the records relating to the period in question, you cannot expect much sympathy. The taxman has heard it all before, and “the dog ate my accounts” gets you nowhere. Odd, then, that the IRS is offering more or less exactly that excuse to Congress.
As Rep. Paul Ryan noted at today’s heated hearing with IRS Commissioner Jon Koskinen, the IRS expects taxpayers to save all relevant documents for seven years, and yet the IRS was not saving some of its own official records for six months.

Over at Prawfsblawg, Pepperdine law professor Naomi Goodno considers how courts would handle equivalent conduct by a litigant facing a discovery request for e-mails and other electronically stored information. The short answer: it’s not pretty. Concludes Goodno: “If this discovery issue had arisen in federal court, the IRS would have likely been subject to monetary sanctions and possibly an adverse inference instruction. “

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