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From: wimbish@jlab.org (Mike Wimbish) The job of bookkeeping or accounting
isn't brain surgery. So why would government CPAs need over $10 billion
dollars to function?
GOVEXEC.COM TODAY
Oversight board criticizes proposed IRS budget By Kellie Lunney The Bush administration's proposed budget for the Internal Revenue Service does not provide enough money to modernize technology, according to the IRS Oversight Board. In an interim report released by the oversight board Thursday, the group recommended an 8.9 percent increase over the administration's proposed figure of $9.4 billion for the IRS in fiscal 2002. "The administration's 2002 budget does not adequately support the IRS strategic plan and provides inadequate support for technology modernization," the report said. The report called for an overall IRS budget of $10.2 billion, including $450 million for information technology investments in 2002, compared with the administration's proposed $397 million. The IRS' Information Technology Investment Account (ITIA) was created in 1999 to provide a consistent level of funding to support long-term IT projects. Board members called on Congress to allocate a total of $1 billion for the account over the next two fiscal years, with $550 million earmarked for fiscal 2003. "The IRS Oversight Board is concerned that for the first time, the ITIA will have a zero balance by the end of fiscal 2001. This is a dangerous situation that could result in projects being inefficiently stopped and started or unnecessarily slowed down," said the report. By law, the oversight board's report goes to Congress along with the administration's budget proposal. The nine-member board, which includes six members from the private sector, was established by the 1998 IRS Restructuring and Reform Act. The board oversees agency operations, recommends candidates to be IRS commissioners and advises the President when it feels a commissioner should be fired. The group is required to report annually to the President and Congress on its findings and recommendations. Full story: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0401/041601m2.htm [Atg: see No Privacy Left - to understand where some of their money
has been spent]
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