Government Watchdog Says IRS Needs to Address Critical Safeguard Weaknesses

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"As this report illustrates, the IRS has repeatedly squandered the public's trust by failing to protect taxpayer privacy and in some cases willfully ignoring recommendations that would have increased taxpayer information security. President Biden's solution is to reward the IRS with an $80 billion pay raise to increase audits on working families, while doing very little to shore up the vulnerabilities that put taxpayers at risk. Meanwhile, as the IRS works to establish a new e-file system that would make the agency tax preparer, collector, and auditor, the public is no closer to learning who is responsible for the politically timed ProPublica leak of confidential taxpayer information. This report is further proof that the IRS does not need a raise; it needs a reckoning."

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