House passes two bills to modernize IRS operations

Less than two weeks after the IRS wrapped what its CEO called the “most successful filing season” in history, the House passed a pair of bills aimed at giving the tax agency better tech for its next go-round. The lower chamber cleared the BARCODE Efficiency Act and the Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act this week, teeing up the modernization-focused pieces of legislation for the Senate.

The Department of Labor aims to unveil its AI workforce hub in “the coming months,” an agency official told FedScoop Tuesday. The concept of a Labor-managed AI workforce hub was first introduced in President Donald Trump’s AI Action Plan last July. The portal will feature recurring analyses and actionable insights meant to inform workforce and education policy, per the plan.

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