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In today's Federal Newscast, the IRS changed the annual contribution limit for 401(k) style retirement plans and the Thrift Savings Plan for 2019.
November 06, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, federal employee unions are heading back to court to pursue their cases against the Office of Personnel Management over the agency's cyber breaches.
November 01, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Congressional Budget Office assesses a bill which would give the Trump administration expedited authority to reorganize the federal government.
October 26, 2018 -
At the 2018 ELC conference, GSA and the IRS were among the agencies highlighting how robotics and other emerging technologies can make federal acquisition better and faster.
October 22, 2018 -
The IRS has spent the past couple years talking up its plan to modernize the agency and the way it delivers services to the taxpayers with an initiative that until now was called "Future State."
October 22, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, James Wolfe, who was the head of the security for the Senate Intelligence Committee for almost 30 years, has plead guilty to making false statements to the FBI about his interactions with a news organization.
October 16, 2018 -
Rob Leahy spent the last almost two years as deputy CIO for the Office of Personnel Management and now decided to return to the IRS where he spent most of his career.
October 08, 2018 -
The Voice of America has fired or proposed to terminate 15 individuals following investigations that found the individuals had accepted improper payments from a foreign official.
October 05, 2018 -
Faced with budget cuts, a reduced workforce, and aging computer systems, IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig has outlined his strategy for leading the agency in an all-hands email to employees.
October 04, 2018 -
National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson has questioned the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) method for reporting customer service satisfaction, calling it misleading.
October 04, 2018 -
The IRS fights to stay at least one step ahead of the fraudsters that use stolen taxpayer credentials to file tax returns. But the frequency of data breaches gives adversaries more ammunition.
September 27, 2018 -
The Department of Housing and Urban Development became the second agency to get help in upgrading its technology and financial management systems under the White House's marquee IT modernization effort.
September 26, 2018 -
The IRS gets its second thumbs-up from oversight officials regarding its handling of this year's Tax Day computer system glitch, but the agency and its watchdog office fault contractors for not doing more to mitigate the problem.
September 25, 2018 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the Agriculture Department's progress under the Centers of Excellence initiative can now be tracked through a new website.
September 18, 2018 -
Internal Revenue Service enforcement operations brought in $2.6 billion more in 2017 than in 2016, despite a continually shrinking staff. But that doesn’t necessarily mean the IRS is getting better at doing less with more.
September 17, 2018