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6 Effect of Declination on Administrative Investigations

Declination of a matter referred for prosecution to the Tax Division permits IRS to take whatever administrative action it feels is appropriate under the circumstances including further investigation by CID. See IRM 9652. Administrative process is available to the special agent conducting such further investigation. 26 U.S.C. Sec. 7602(c). The IRS may resubmit the matter to the Tax Division as a new referral.


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