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GAO: IRS website redesign plan needs work
The number of searches on the Internal Revenue Service's website was up significantly in the 2011 tax filing year, even though web traffic did not experience a similar spike, finds the Government
IRS e-filing oversight a model for GPRAMA, says GAO
The Internal Revenue Service's e-filing program is one example of effective congressional oversight, which can serve as a template for the increased congressional guidance required under the
TIGTA: Programming errors at IRS complicate tax processing
Programming errors in Internal Revenue Service tax processing applications have led the tax agency to internally flag large numbers of returns as errors, finds a new Treasury Inspector General for
GAO: IRS has a ways to go before meeting e-file adoption goal
The Internal Revenue Service must resolve several issues if it hopes to reach its goal of having 80 percent of all major types of tax returns electronically filed by 2012, says the Government
IRS MeF underutilized in 2010, says GAO
The IRS's next generation electronic tax return filing system was underutilized by tax filers in 2010, finds the Government Accountability Office. The tax agency began processing individual tax
IRS: E-filing tax returns now the American norm
More than two thirds of all federal tax filers now do so electronically, according to newly-released Internal Revenue Service figures. During 2010, when filing returns for the previous year, 69.76 of
IRS will tighten tax professional access to portal
The Internal Revenue Service could make it harder for tax professionals to logon to a portal for electronically filing clients' returns, according to a new audit for the Treasury Inspector General
IRS online tool wrongly rejects tax returns
Tax day has come and gone, but the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says it has concerns about the Internal Revenue Service's Modernized e-File system. In an audit dated March 31,
SPOTLIGHT: 95 million Americans e-filed their tax returns this year
This year, more than 67 percent of all taxpayers--95 million Americans in all--have e-filed their returns. That's a phenomenal number (up almost 6 percent from last year), and a testament to the
It costs the IRS millions for paper returns
The Internal Revenue Service spends millions to process paper tax returns. And the American public still does not get it that it saves money for everyone to file tax returns online. Nearly 43 percent
