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About 58 percent of federal employees say their workloads have increased since President Donald Trump authorized a temporary hiring freeze for some agencies, according to a recent survey from the National Treasury Employees Union.
Legislation proposed by a House Republican would eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency by the end of 2018. Some say it's political grandstanding, while others suggest maybe it's time for an update to EPA. But what would it take to dismantle a large federal agency?
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says feds should brace for a reorganization, and offers some tips to survive it.
Looking closer at metadata and partnering with state departments of revenue and industry groups, the IRS is reducing risk of tax return identity theft
Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says the old term "measure twice, cut once" has been around for a long time because it makes sense.
Tom Walker, a chartered federal employee benefits consultant and founder of Walker Capital Preservation Group, Inc., details what employees need to consider before taking a loan from their retirement savings account.
The National Taxpayer Advocate's 2016 report to Congress calls for tax reform and for the Internal Revenue Service to turn its focus outward when it comes to customer service and meeting its mission as a tax administration agency.
The IRS is gearing up for the 2017 filing season by focusing on cybersecurity and customer service. The agency expects to process more than 150 million individual tax returns. But how smooth this filing season will be comes down to whether or not President-elect Trump decides to extend the hiring freeze to the tax agency.
Terry Milholland, the former chief information officer and chief technology officer at the IRS, who retired in June, said by becoming world class in managing and overseeing technology, the bureau is seeing real improvements in its operations.
The IRS says it's rethinking its workforce strategy as it begins preparations to implement several sweeping changes to the agency. IRS Chief Human Capital Officer Daniel Riordan says he's developing new career models, as many new employees with have different jobs as the agency's operations change.
Under a $2 million contract, Synack Government will use ethical hackers for penetration testing of IRS cybersecurity systems.
While some agencies have jumped into the big data game without a clear plan for using it, others have been using data to improve their services for a while. One agency has even reached the point where it's discovered that too much data can be just as much a hindrance as a help.
The Office of Management and Budget launched Code.gov, a repository of open source code that can pull from and use on their own. It's part of the administration's Federal Source Code Policy, which OMB released this summer. Yet some federal CIOs said the push for open source has the opportunity to go even one step further.
The Internal Revenue Service is standing up an Identity Theft Tax Refund Fraud Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ISAC) to help build on the 2016 progress of reducing identity refund fraud.