Two-thirds of IRS IT is beyond useful life

Federal Times: The majority of the IRS’s computer infrastructure are past their prime.

Fully 64 percent of the IRS’s computer infrastructure is beyond its useful life, according to an audit by the Treasury Department’s Inspector General for Tax Administration.

“At the beginning of Fiscal Year 2017, the number of aged information technology hardware assets was 137,721 out of 216,293, representing 64 percent of the total information technology hardware inventory,” auditors found. “The IRS estimates that the current replacement cost for its aged information technology hardware is approximately $430 million.”

Read article