(1)
Your name or your company’s name
Your address or your company’s address
Your phone number (optional)
Date
(2)
Internal Revenue Service
[Your local Disclosure Office address; See IRS Disclosure Offices for address list]
Dear Disclosure Officer:
This is a sample letter and outline
This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act.
(4)
I request that a copy of the following documents (identify the documents or information as specifically as possible) be provided to me. I do not wish to inspect the documents first.
(5)
In order to determine my status for the applicability of fees, you should know that I am (insert a suitable description of the requester and the purpose of the request).
[Sample requester descriptions (please choose only one if applicable):
A Media Requester: a representative of the news media affiliated with the XXXX newspaper (magazine, television station, etc.), and this request is made as part of news gathering and not for a commercial use.
An Educational Institution Requester or a Non-Commercial Scientific Institution Requester affiliated with an educational or noncommercial scientific institution, and this request is made for a scholarly or scientific purpose and not for a commercial use.
A Commercial-Use Requester affiliated with a private corporation, seeking information for use in the company’s business.
An ?Other? Requester seeking information for non-commercial or personal use.]
(6)
As proof of identity I am including a photocopy of my driver?s license, notarized declaration, sworn statement, etc. (See ?To Establish Identity and Right to Access?)
(7)
I am willing to pay fees for this request up to a maximum of $XX. If you estimate that the fees will exceed this limit, please inform me first.
(8)
Thank you for your consideration of this request.
Sincerely,
[your signature]