Re:IRS to Begin Trial of Its Own Free Tax-Filing System
by nerdponx on Saturday January 06, 2024 @02:52PM
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The $80B is new, and until recently they were understaffed and underfunded.
It's like a poor person finally getting Section 8 housing, and then you turn around and accuse them of being wasteful and inefficient with their spending, because they have a house so they clearly aren't as poor as they say.
Is it possible that the IRS lacks the engineering management expertise to build an effective in-house software team? Sure.
Is it possible that they won't spend their money efficiently as a result? Sure.
Is it possible that they'll hire B-grade programmers, because the top people won't want to move to some random suburb in MD to work for $120k/year? Sure.
But to somehow accuse the IRS of having "massive" funding and imply that they are in fact well-supported is just disregarding the facts of recent history.
It's like a poor person finally getting Section 8 housing, and then you turn around and accuse them of being wasteful and inefficient with their spending, because they have a house so they clearly aren't as poor as they say.
Also the $80B and 87k agents is slightly overstating what they are actually going to get. See e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/insider/2022/10/20/the-reality-....
Is it possible that the IRS lacks the engineering management expertise to build an effective in-house software team? Sure.
Is it possible that they won't spend their money efficiently as a result? Sure.
Is it possible that they'll hire B-grade programmers, because the top people won't want to move to some random suburb in MD to work for $120k/year? Sure.
But to somehow accuse the IRS of having "massive" funding and imply that they are in fact well-supported is just disregarding the facts of recent history.