Treasury Department

Treasury avoids paying $4B to fraudsters this year in ‘whole of government’ strategy

The Treasury Department is giving state unemployment offices access to its Do Not Pay database, in a multi-pronged plan to stem fraud.

Agency Oversight

(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 recovers $1B in crackdown on taxes owed by millionaires

Agency Oversight

Getty Images/iStockphoto/Alexey Bragin

New strategy, A-123 update to help reduce improper payments

Ask the CIO

Even when government itself is your constituent, you need good identity management

Cybersecurity

IRS adds another state to Direct File, as House Republicans seek to defund it

IT Modernization

IRS to boost enforcement staffing, close tax loopholes used by complex partnerships

Agency Oversight

Treasury’s Heller-Stein stepping in to lead the CHCO Council

People

House GOP propose defunding IRS Direct File, further budget cuts to enforcement

Congress

FILE - In this photo March 22, 2013 file photo, the exterior of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building in Washington. Lawmakers are increasingly looking at boosting the IRS to help pay for infrastructure improvements. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

How the pandemic changed IRS technology for good

Ask the CIO

Treasury giving agencies a fighting chance to prevent fraud

Agency Oversight

Senate to take $100M back from TMF, $10M from USDS

Budget

Treasury, IRS set 50% return-to-office target for employees to meet ‘governmentwide’ standard

The Treasury Department and the IRS are calling on teleworking employees to return to the office for half of their workdays, starting in a few months.

Workforce

biometric security, Pandemic, fraud, PRAC

Beyond finger-pointing: Common sense reform needed to prevent another fraud crisis

Linda Miller, the founder and CEO of Audient Group, LLC and a former deputy executive director of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, explains…

Commentary

CISA could offer stronger ‘top-down’ support to agencies, cyber officials say

Cybersecurity

Officials at the VA and Treasury say CISA should offer more centralized support to agencies through its cyber services and the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.