Traditionally, documents to be used in tax litigation and relating to the strength or weakness of a tax position are covered by work-product privilege so the IRS generally cannot get them.
In a short 12 months, I had mastered not only my job, but had also taken on another position from someone I covered during maternity leave but who decided not to return.
"Indeed several of the areas under consideration are already covered by historic byelaws so this is just an exercise to update the position, " he said.