IRS Data Centers Gird for Tax Season

Data Center Knowledge (Mar 29 2010)

1. It’s crunch time for the Internal Revenue Service. As the IRS ramps up for the annual crescendo of returns around the April 15 deadline, the state of the agency’s infrastructure depends upon who you ask. IT executives at the IRS say it has made huge strides in modernizing its data centers, which processed 139 million returns and issued $298 billion in refunds in 2009. Independent tests say the IRS web site is the fastest U.S. government site, and one of the fastest on the web. But a key government watchdog, the General Accounting Office, says the modernization effort hasn’t moved quickly enough, and continues to fault the IRS for weaknesses in its security practices. Electronic Filing Key to Efficiency What’s not in dispute is that the agency’s growing capacity to process electronic returns is critical to improving the efficiency and accuracy of the nation ... (Read Full Article)

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