Individual Master File

IRS Document Upload Tool, IRS Tax Season Stats

IRS hit a ‘big milestone’ to wean itself off paper. What comes next?

A backlog of paper-based tax returns and correspondence hobbled the IRS at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

IT Modernization

Peter Musurlian

February unfolds as IRS enters into its annual pressure testing

Workforce

IRS commissioner expects to see enforcement hiring to ‘ramp up’ in coming months

Hiring/Retention

IRS commissioner finalizing plans to rebuild workforce over next decade

Hiring/Retention

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

FILE - This March 22, 2013 file photo, shows the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service building in Washington. The Internal Revenue Service is recalling about 46,000 of its employees furloughed by the government shutdown, nearly 60 percent of its workforce, to handle tax returns and pay out refunds. The employees won't be paid. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

IRS details strategy for replacing its most ancient computer code

Tom Temin Commentary

A ‘sense of urgency’ as IRS legacy IT systems grow increasingly older

Technology