**GAO-10-565R**                      Published: Jun 28, 2010. Publicly Released: Jun 28, 2010.                  

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## Highlights

The purpose of this report is to present internal control and compliance issues identified during our audit of IRS's financial statements as of, and for the fiscal year ending, September 30, 2009, for which we do not already have any recommendations outstanding. Although not all of these issues were discussed in our report on the results of our fiscal year 2009 financial statement audit, they all warrant IRS management's attention.

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