Leaders on the House Ways and Means Committee have sent the IRS a letter requesting detailed information on the agency’s $2.5 billion fiscal 2013 IT budget.
The chair of the subcommittee on oversight, Charles Boustany Jr., R-La., and ranking member John Lewis, D-Ga., explained in the letter their need to “take a deeper look at the manner in which the IRS is utilizing its budget to ensure that American taxpayers are deriving the maximum benefit from the agency’s work and that the modernized computer systems improve and enhance revenue collection and tax return processing."
The letter requests information on the agency’s IT budget process, asks what channels of approval are required for IT infrastructure spending, requests a flow chart and timeline tracing the budget process and identifying offices, titles and locations of the associated decision makers.
It further seeks details about the agency’s CADE 2 database, central to the IRS’s tax systems modernization effort, particularly in regard to the scope of work to be completed and timeline and seeks a historical overview of CADE 2 spending and development. The letter also seeks a fuller accounting of the agency’s overall IT modernization plan.
