Ali Meyer of the Washington Free Beacon details some recent bad news involving the Internal Revenue Service and transparency.

The Internal Revenue Service improperly withheld information from requesters after Freedom of Information Act requests were filed, according to a report from the Treasury inspector general for tax administration.

Auditors evaluated a sample of 70 FOIA requests and found that the agency improperly withheld information in 10 of these cases.

The IRS withheld publicly available information as well as information taxpayers wanted regarding their own cases such as tax information and examination reports.

“Although the IRS properly released thousands of pages from these documents, taxpayer rights may have been violated because the IRS improperly withheld information from the requestors,” the auditors said.

Based on the sample of FOIA requests the IRS did not give full information for, the inspector general projects there may be 385 of the total 2,693 FOIA requests that had information withheld.

In addition, auditors found that sensitive taxpayer information was inadvertently disclosed when responding to some FOIA requests.