IRS
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More than a year into its Security Summit, the IRS said it's building on the lessons it learned and progress it made to add a series of new authentication and information sharing measures.
June 28, 2016 -
The White House has threatened to veto a fiscal 2017 spending bill that would further cut the Internal Revenue Service's budget by $236 million.
June 23, 2016 -
Legal experts told House lawmakers they could essentially impeach anyone they want for whatever reasons they deem justified, but the real question is whether they should.
June 23, 2016 -
For the next three weeks, New Carrollton IRS employees find themselves cut off from main headquarters downtown.
June 20, 2016 -
The House Oversight Committee voted out a resolution to censure IRS Commissioner John Koskinen. The vote was on party lines, with Democrats opposing. Republicans hope it is leads to an impeachment proceeding. Steve Ryan, a partner at the law firm McDermott Will and Emery, tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin the whole effort is misguided.
June 17, 2016 -
Federal News Radio obtained a previously unreleased memo from federal CIO Tony Scott detailing 18 milestones over the next six months to make the Login.gov platform a reality.
June 13, 2016 -
An early draft of a fiscal 2017 spending bill aims to deliver more severe cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, and would prevent the agency from enforcing provisions in the Affordable Care Act.
June 10, 2016 -
The Internal Revenue Service relaunched Get Transcript, the application that lets users access their tax returns electronically, on Tuesday. It's been about a year since the IRS disabled the web app when hackers stole personal information and used it to access tax returns for roughly 334,000 people.
June 07, 2016 -
What do you call a bonus system where 60 percent of all workers get the cash awards? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it's called the U.S. government.
June 06, 2016 -
Government Accountability Office auditors found 13 problems with internal controls at the Internal Revenue Service. Cheryl Clark, GAO's director of financial management and assurance issues, shared GAO's recommendations for IRS on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
June 01, 2016 -
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said he was warming up to the idea of the fund, but wants assurances that the money will be spent wisely and receive a return on investment.
May 26, 2016 -
Federal employees are one-step closer to a 1.6 percent pay raise in 2017 as the $21.7 billion Financial Services and General Government Appropriations bill passed out of subcommittee.
May 25, 2016 -
As hearings to consider impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen move forward, two opposing narratives emerge regarding criminal intent, or lack thereof.
May 25, 2016 -
When Congress declares war on the Internal Revenue Service, who pays for it and who loses? Senior correspondent Mike Causey says you are literally in bed with the payee.
May 24, 2016 -
Congressional Republicans continue to weigh whether or not they want to move to impeach the head of the IRS. The House Judiciary Committee said it plans to have two hearings over the next several weeks to look into possible misconduct of Commissioner John Koskinen.
May 16, 2016