The agency’s “expedited” deployment of a platform to track costs as part of the Trump admin’s “defend the spend” initiative bypassed the market research phase, TIGTA found.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found inconsistencies in how the IRS tracks its procedures for evaluating data quality checks in high-impact AI models.
Internal Revenue Service Chief Executive Officer Frank Bisignano testifies during a hearing with the Senate Finance Committee on April 15, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Users can check refund statuses, balance statements and more in the app that replaces IRS2Go and that the agency’s CEO says advances the IRS’s “digital-first agenda.”
It takes the agency 20 months on average to process the claims, leading to “financial hardship for taxpayers” and significant interest paid by the IRS on delayed…
A security camera is installed as Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents stand guard in front of protesters outside Delaney Hall on May 29, 2026 in Newark, N.J. (Photo by Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said some of the Trump administration’s arguments were “weak sauce” and the data-sharing “indisputably contravenes” privacy law.
IRS Commissioner Daniel Werfel speaks during an event on Aug. 2, 2023, in McLean, Va. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen also attended the event and spoke on “the significant progress that’s been made on modernizing the IRS and improving taxpayer service in the first year of the Inflation Reduction Act.” (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
The tax agency has spent 64% of its funding from the 2022 law, but there’s another $8.6 billion remaining for technology and operations support, per a watchdog…
Following the departures of 22,000 tax agency staffers, nearly 600 laptops, portable printers and smartphones haven’t been located, per a new TIGTA report.
An inspector general report said IRS employees who took deferred resignation offers didn’t have a "legitimate business reason” to still have access to sensitive agency networks.
Agency officials told the watchdog that the “recent loss of experienced IT acquisition staff” resulted in paper-processing systems not being ready for the filing season.
