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jdrosstoday at 7:48 PM4 repliesview on HN

8,500 IT workers in the IRS is insane.

They barely have any products, and they contract externally for so much other work


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munk-atoday at 7:54 PM

They have worked recently to implement a self-hosted tax submission system and given their rate of return while there may be some mismanagement it is one of the most provably efficient organizations in the government netting 415$ for every dollar of funding in 2024.

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arcologies1985today at 8:00 PM

They built IRS Direct File which was a huge improvement. Then the administration killed it to serve tax prep companies.

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justinatortoday at 7:51 PM

They have 150 million paying "customers" (not including businesses) and bring in $5 trillion+ yearly.

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tokyobreakfasttoday at 7:52 PM

The public sector is where you need 12 people (and a project manager) to build an Access database.

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