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81x12: Applicability of the Personnel Administration Exception

March 19, 1981

OGE advised that an employee of the Internal Revenue Service would be prohibited by 18 U.S.C. § 205 from representing another employee of the IRS in a tax audit. Such representation would not fall within the exceptions for a "disciplinary ... or other personnel administration proceeding."

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