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Also in today's Federal Newscast, murdered Army Spc. Vanessa Guillen's family files a $35 million lawsuit, and GSA is offering some new help to agencies to improve cybersecurity.
August 15, 2022 -
The IRS is getting its shot to rebuild its workforce and bring its IT into the 21st century, after more than a decade of belt-tightening.
August 15, 2022 -
It’s that time of year when activity on Capitol Hill usually falls into a lull. But this year’s the rare occurrence when big legislative activity is happening in August. The Senate passed a huge reconciliation bill over the weekend; the House is expected to do the same later this week. Meanwhile both houses have a lot of work waiting for them to reconcile their versions of the annual appropriations and authorization bills.
August 09, 2022 -
Just yesterday afternoon, the Senate gave final passage to the Inflation Reduction Act after a full weekend of votes on amendments.
August 08, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, the IRS is getting billions more for enforcement, and some feds in the West and Pacific Northwest expect some locality pay to be in their future.
August 08, 2022 -
The IRS is appearing to engage in politically influenced activities. For how audits are supposed to work, and mainly do, Chad Hooper, president of the Professional Managers Association, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
August 04, 2022 -
The Chief Information Officer at GSA is seemingly in unrestrained hiring mode. Meanwhile, federal employees under 30 are resigning at higher rates than the overall average.
August 03, 2022 -
The House's passage of a government spending package has a few key implications for federal agencies in fiscal 2023.
July 21, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast: With attacks on postal workers increasing, congress steps in. Congress also moves to get injured federal first responders their retirement benefits. And get ready for travel advisories about being taken hostage abroad.
July 20, 2022 -
The Internal Revenue Service, halfway through a six-year IT modernization campaign, hasn’t received the funding it sought from Congress in order to retire some of the oldest running systems in the federal government.
July 19, 2022 -
In today's Federal Newscast, IRS career managers respond to allegations of politically-motivated tax audits of former FBI director James Comey and deputy director Andrew McCabe.
July 14, 2022 -
The IRS has been publishing “the Dirty Dozen” for much of the past twenty years in an effort to advise taxpayers and tax preparers of scams and schemes that are in some way related to taxes.
July 06, 2022 -
The Biden administration is setting a high bar for customer experience across government, but it’s the General Services Administration that’s laying the foundation for those improvements.
June 30, 2022 -
The Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee, in its annual report to Congress, found the IRS experienced over 100 continuing resolutions since 2001, and that funding uncertainty forces the agency to opt for more expensive, less effective, short-term solutions.
June 29, 2022 -
It's easier to imagine better CX than to make it happen. At least now it's their money.
June 24, 2022