Date Issued
Report Number
2020-20-044
Report Type
Audit
Joint Report
Yes
Participating OIG
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Agency Wide
Yes (agency-wide)
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0
Recommendations
The Chief Information Officer should coordinate with the other business units and functions, as needed, to establish, implement, and uniformly apply an IRS enterprise-wide definition of a legacy system.
The Chief Information Officer should coordinate with the other business units and functions, as needed, to implement Portfolio Rationalization or a similar program IRS enterprise wide to identify, prioritize, and execute the updating, replacing, or retiring of current and future legacy systems. This should include consideration of the system as well as the subsystem levels.
The Chief Information Officer should coordinate with the other business units and functions, as needed, to ensure that all systems are included in the ABA with complete and accurate information, including the managing organization(s), application age, and programming language.
The Chief Information Officer should coordinate with the other business units and functions, as needed, to implement a policy requiring system owners to provide and periodically update system information in the ABA.
The Chief Information Officer should capture operations and maintenance costs for its current information technology infrastructure at the subsystem level.