SOURCE:  The Great IRS Hoax book, Section 6.4.13.

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Apparently frustrated by our website and dedicated patriots everywhere who have been reading the law and the IRS publications to defend their legal and Constitutional rights to not pay direct taxes, the IRS completed redesigning their website (http://www.irs.gov) to remove key portions from their search engine, thereby making it more difficult for patriots to find help on important subjects and understand their responsibilities using the IRS website.

The most valuable portion of their website, the Internal Revenue Manual (IRM), was moved from the Tax Professional’s Corner to the FOIA area of their website and conspicuously removed from their search engine.  The FOIA area of most government websites is reserved for things the government doesn't want to disclose to people but has to anyway under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).  The IRM is several thousand pages long and removing it from the website search engine makes it extremely difficult and inconvenient for patriots and freedom advocates to locate relevant information and properly comply with federal tax law.  We would be willing to bet that their internal intranet accessible only to IRS employees has the document added to their search engine for more convenient use by its own employees.  We'd recommend doing an FOIA request to find this out to gather evidence to document this hypocritical scam.  Please send us a copy of your FOIA response from the IRS if you do so.

The IRS also deleted the area below telling where to file FOIA requests, as though they no longer want any!:

http://www.irs.gov/prod/preview/foia/offices.html

IRS:  Is THIS what you call improving customer service and satisfaction and better meeting your your mission statement, which says(?):

"Provide America's taxpayers top quality service by helping them understand and meet their tax responsibilities and by applying the tax law with integrity and fairness to all."

We'd say this strategic move conflicts with your mission statement and makes it more, not less difficult for people to understand and meet their legal tax responsibilities!  Instead, it simply makes them more dependent on your fraudulent IRS publications and less able to understand the law.

Nice try, IRS, but we were ready for you when you pulled this stunt!  Don't fret, patriots!  If you want an indexed, searchable version of the IRM as of Sept. 2001, you can go to our site below:

The search box is at the end of the table of contents.  However, the search function only works on our home site and not on our mirror sites.