alt Hacker News8,500 IT workers in the IRS is insane.
They barely have any products, and they contract externally for so much other work
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justinator • today at 7:51 PM
They have 150 million paying "customers" (not including businesses) and bring in $5 trillion+ yearly.
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arcologies1985 • today at 8:00 PM
They built IRS Direct File which was a huge improvement. Then the administration killed it to serve tax prep companies.
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tokyobreakfast • today at 7:52 PM
The public sector is where you need 12 people (and a project manager) to build an Access database.
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They have worked recently to implement a self-hosted tax submission system and given their rate of return while there may be some mismanagement it is one of the most provably efficient organizations in the government netting 415$ for every dollar of funding in 2024.