It’s universally acknowledged that the Internal Revenue Service has some really old IT systems. However, despite the regular attention on that challenge, the Government Accountability Office is concerned that the tax-collection agency still isn’t prepared to deal with issues that may arise.
GAO surveyed the IRS’s IT operations — new investments as well as systems in the operations and maintenance phase — and came up with mixed results. As part of that, the congressional watchdog revisited known older risks and found that the IRS needs better plans for mitigating them.
In the case of the four new investment-stage IT systems GAO looked at, the IRS had spent less money than initially planned. However, less positively, most of the systems were…
