Audit from Treasury Department’s inspector general for tax administration: IRS’s aging IT Puts Taxpayer Data at Risk. IRS has yet to achieve its stated objective of reducing its aging hardware to an acceptable level, deemed at 20 percent to 25 percent of all IT hardware. IRS estimates that the replacement cost for its old hardware is about $430 million. IRS CIO S. Gina Garza characterizes replacement of aging infrastructure as a high priority for the agency. Garza challenges auditors’ underlying premise that the agency is using resources inefficiently by not spending all its appropriated funds each fiscal year.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/inspector-general-irss-aging-puts-taxpayer-data-at-risk-a-10312