Facebook IRS Request Fails

Facebook’s IRS document request suit fails because the claim didn’t match FOIA request. A district court has denied Facebook’s motion to compel the IRS, based on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), to provide the social media giant with documents about the IRS’s audit of the company. The court held that Facebook’s claim in its complaint didn’t match its FOIA request to the IRS and, thus, Facebook didn’t “exhaust its administrative remedies.” In FOIA cases, a party must exhaust administrative remedies before that party can seek judicial review.