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.
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…
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.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration detailed security gaps, vulnerabilities and unauthorized software amid the agency’s pivot from paperless processing.
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration found an increase in inventories, from 1.9 million at the beginning of filing season to 2.4 by the end of…
