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IRS seeks new enterprise file storage system

As part of the agency’s ongoing modernization efforts, it issued a request for information for a new enterprise file storage system

  • By Kirsten Errick

IRS wants cloud-based AI to sniff out insider threats

The tax agency is looking for a cloud-based, artificially intelligent analytical platform that can identify and mitigate cyber and insider threats within the agency.

  • By Derek B. Johnson

DRC twin tasks help IRS validate credit card systems

Aim of awards is to protect taxpayer data and maintain secure credit card operations.

  • By David Hubler

Unisys powers IRS excise fuel tax collection

Task order calls for managing, maintaining agency’s Excise Files Information Retrieval System

  • By David Hubler

SAS arms IRS with new fraud detection tools

The North Carolina company is supporting IRS’s new electronic Return Review Program system, which is designed to spot fraudulent returns as they come in.

  • By David Hubler

House Republicans prepare to unveil new 3 percent solution

Lawmakers have continually said the tax that would keep back 3 percent of payments to companies would hurt contractors and make it tough for agencies to comply with the administrative burdens.

  • By Matthew Weigelt
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IRS sets date for 3 percent withholding tax hearing

Since the tax was enacted in 2006, concerns have been raised about the administrative burdens of compliance and the effects on companies' revenues.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Former IRS procurement chief procures a private-sector post

The recently retired IRS director of procurement is named a principal at a consulting firm in Great Falls, Va., that specializes in strategic acquisition guidance.

  • By David Hubler

IRS' lips sealed on globetrotting State contractors with big tax bills, GAO says

A GAO investigation of tax delinquents who travel on U.S. passports has uncovered the case of two State Department contractors who owe more than $100,000 in unpaid taxes.

  • By Alice Lipowicz

Union: Contractors weaken Federal Protective Service, placing feds at risk

The National Treasury Employees Union has complained to Congress that Federal Protective Service relies far too much on private contractors armed with too little training, too little funding, and too little proper management to protect federal buildings.

Bill would vaccinate Tricare against reform complications

A Senate bill, introduced the day before President Obama signed the health care reform law, would change the IRS code on behalf of those in military health plans.

For ASR, the future is a matter of trust

ASR Analytics specializes in data modeling and decision support services, and boasts an impressive list of clients after just five years in business.

  • By Nick Wakeman

Mapmakers face stiff tax burden

Mapping and surveying contractors will be hit with a 13 percent withholding of income tax from their federal contracts, a trade association official says.

  • By Alice Lipowicz
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IG: IRS overuses cost-plus contracts

The Internal Revenue Service tends to award cost-reimbursement contracts although some of the work is for routine maintenance, a report says.

  • By Matthew Weigelt

Private tax collectors lose IRS work

The tax agency found that federal employees were more cost effective than the debt contractors.

  • By Mary Mosquera

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CSC to cut jobs on IRS contract

CSC is reducing its workforce on the Internal Revenue Service’s multimillion-dollar Customer Account Data Engine contract.

  • By David Hubler