The computer systems at the Internal Revenue Service made headlines for all the wrong reasons in recent years. Whatever one’s political interpretation of lost emails and crashed hard drives might have been, there is also an economic angle that should enrage liberals and conservatives alike: The IRS spends a tremendous amount of money on information technology.
The Tax Prof Blog points out that $37,051 is spent on IT for the average Treasury Department employee, of which the IRS is a big part, compared to less than $5,000 per employee in the private sector. The International Association of IT Asset Managers estimates that the IRS could save a whopping $31,000 per employee annually. Translated into the typical $9,118 that most Americans send each year to the IRS, that is 281,000 taxpayers’ contributions to the federal budget eaten up by waste in the agency tasked with collecting their taxes.
April 02, 2017 at 10:39PM
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