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Independent Auditors' Report on Internal Accounting Control
The Board of Directors and Shareholders
IDS Special Tax-Exempt Series Trust:
In planning and performing our audits of the financial statements
of IDS Insured Tax-Exempt Fund, Massachusetts Tax-Exempt Fund, Michigan
Tax-Exempt Fund, Minnesota Tax-Exempt Fund, New York Tax-Exempt Fund, and
Ohio Tax-Exempt Fund (funds within IDS Special Tax-Exempt Series Trust) for
the year ended September 30, 1998, we considered their internal control,
including control activities 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.
The management of IDS Special Tax-Exempt Series Trust is responsible for
establishing and maintaining internal control. In fulfilling this
responsibility, estimates and judgments by management are required to
assess the expected benefits and related costs of controls. Generally,
controls that are relevant to an audit pertain to the entity's objective
of preparing financial statements for external purposes that are fairly
presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
Those controls include the safeguarding of assets against unauthorized
acquisition, use or disposition.
Because of inherent limitations in internal control, errors or irregularities
may occur and not be detected. Also, projection of any evaluation of
internal control 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 would not necessarily disclose
all matters in the internal control 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 one or more of the internal control
components 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 and its operation, including controls
for safeguarding securities, that we consider to be a material weakness
as defined above.
This report is intended solely for the information and use of management,
the Board of Directors of IDS Special Tax-Exempt Series Trust, and the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP
Minneapolis, Minnesota
August 7, 1998
