IRS tech modernization legislation passes the House

Federal Times: In the shadow of a recent IRS payment application outage that forced the agency to delay the 2017 tax season filing deadline by a day, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to improve cybersecurity, taxpayer identity protection and the modernization of agency IT systems.

The bill, titled the 21st Century IRS Act, passed the House on a nearly unanimous vote of 414 to three April 18, 2018, passing the legislation on to the Senate for markup and approval.

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