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KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
4200 Norwest Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN 55402
Independent Auditors' Report on Internal
Accounting Control
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
IDS Tax-Exempt Bond Fund, Inc.:
In planning and performing our audit of the
financial statements of IDS TaxProgressive Fund,
Inc. for the year ended September 30, 1996, we
considered their internal control structure,
including procedures for safeguarding securities,
in order to determine our auditing procedures for
the purpose of expressing our opinion on the
financial statements and to comply with the
requirements of Form N-SAR, not to provide
assurance on the internal control structure.
The management of IDS Progressive Fund, Inc. is
responsible for establishing and maintaining a
system of internal accounting control. In
fulfilling this responsibility, estimates and
judgments by management are required to assess
the expected benefits and related costs of
internal control structure policies and
procedures. Two of the objectives of an internal
control structure are to provide management with
reasonable, but not absolute, assurance that
assets are safeguarded against loss from
unauthorized use or disposition and that
transactions are executed in accordance with
management's authorization and recorded properly
to permit the preparation of financial statements
in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles.
Because of inherent limitations in any internal
control structure, errors or irregularities may
occur and not be detected. Also, projection of
any evaluation of the structure to future periods
is subject to the risk that it may become
inadequate because of changes in conditions or
that the effectiveness of the design and
operation may deteriorate.
Our consideration of the internal control
structure would not necessarily disclose all
matters in the internal control structure that
might be material weaknesses under standards
established by the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants. A material weakness
is a condition in which the design or operation
of the specific internal control structure
elements does not reduce to a relatively low
level the risk that errors or irregularities in
amounts that would be material in relation to the
financial statements being audited may occur and
not be detected within a timely period by
employees in the normal course of performing
their assigned functions. However, we noted no
matters involving the internal control structure,
including procedures for safeguarding securities,
that we consider to be a material
weakness as defined above as of September 30,
1996.
This report is intended solely for the
information and use of management and the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Minneapolis, Minnesota
November 1, 1996
