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The IRS faces a particularly challenging rollout to the 2019 filing season, best summarized in four words: more work, fewer employees.
The IRS failed to flag compromised personally identifiable information linked to dozens of external data breaches last year and put the tax information of nearly 11,000 people at risk, according to a recent watchdog audit.
The IRS fights to stay at least one step ahead of the fraudsters that use stolen taxpayer credentials to file tax returns. But the frequency of data breaches gives adversaries more ammunition.
The IRS gets its second thumbs-up from oversight officials regarding its handling of this year's Tax Day computer system glitch, but the agency and its watchdog office fault contractors for not doing more to mitigate the problem.
Internal Revenue Service enforcement operations brought in $2.6 billion more in 2017 than in 2016, despite a continually shrinking staff. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the IRS is getting better at doing less with more.
It was only recently that the IRS started notifying victims of employment-related identity theft and a program glitch means many have yet to be told.
In today's Federal Newscast, Democratic lawmakers are worried the President's desired military parade would cost too much money.
The agency says it is on track to implement new hiring policies, and doubled down on its tax ID fraud defenses.
The IRS stopped more than 880,000 confirmed ID theft returns in calendar 2016.
The suspension means taxpayers cannot create new online accounts using Secure Access.
In recent years, budges have fluctuated or fallen at the Internal Revenue Service. Now the IRS operating with 400 fewer agents than it had before.
In today's Federal Newscast, a report from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administrations finds the Internal Revenue Service had many criteria for further investigating groups applying for tax-exempt status.
The Internal Revenue Service is working to roll out a new agency-wide email system by the end of the year that will automatically archive messages for record-keeping purposes. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration said under legacy processes, the IRS is running afoul of federal records laws in several ways. Greg Kutz, assistant inspector general for audit at TIGTA, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to talk about what the office found when it took a deep dive into records.
Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and IRS Commissioner John Koskinen urged Congress to fund the tax administration so it can invest in IT infrastructure, and meet customer service demands.