Microsoft Corporation v. Internal Revenue Service

  1. January 19, 2023

    IRS Beats Microsoft's FOIA Suit Over 15-Year Audit

    The IRS adequately searched for documents on its 15-year audit of Microsoft while justifying exemptions to disclosure requirements for withheld files, a Washington federal judge ruled, tossing the tech giant's case seeking records under the Freedom of Information Act.

  2. July 25, 2022

    Microsoft Says IRS Can't Skip FOIA Suit Over 15-Year Audit

    A Washington federal court should reject the IRS' bid to escape without trial from Microsoft Corp.'s public records suit seeking documents on its 15-year audit, the company argued, saying the agency withheld tens of thousands of files with little justification.

  3. May 02, 2022

    IRS Adequately Responded To Microsoft FOIA, Court Told

    The Internal Revenue Service fully complied with Microsoft's public records request seeking information on the agency's relationship with two law firms, and the company's suit to enforce the request should be tossed, the U.S. government told a Washington federal judge.

  4. January 19, 2016

    IRS Erased Hard Drive In Microsoft's Quinn Emanuel FOIA Suit

    The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it erased a hard drive belonging to a former agency official after a litigation hold had been ordered on materials relating to a Freedom of Information Act request by Microsoft for documents on the agency's contract with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP.

  5. August 19, 2015

    Microsoft Consolidates FOIA Suits Over IRS Hiring Of Firms

    Microsoft Corp. will consolidate two Freedom of Information Act cases seeking information about the Internal Revenue Service's hiring of private law firms after both parties agreed consolidation would streamline the process, according to a Tuesday order from a Washington federal judge.

  6. March 12, 2015

    Microsoft Hits IRS With New FOIA Suit Over Tax Probe

    Microsoft Corp. hit the Internal Revenue Service with another Freedom of Information Act suit in a Washington federal court Wednesday over its alleged failure to disclose records connected to an investigation of the tech giant's federal income tax returns.

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