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Existing Controls Did Not Prevent Unauthorized Disclosures and Case Documentation Issues in Appeals Trust Fund Recovery Penalty Cases.

Report Number
2020-10-042

… waste, or abuse, please call us at 1-800-366-4484 TIGTACommunications@tigta.treas.gov | www.treasury.gov/tigta | … or shareholder, when a corporation fails to pay withheld income and employment taxes. If a taxpayer disagrees with the … Proposed Trust Fund Recovery Penalty Notification (hereafter referred to as proposed TFRP notification letter). If …

Most Internal Revenue Service Applications Do Not Have Sufficient Audit Trails to Detect Unauthorized Access to Sensitive Information

Report Number
2020-20-033

… are properly tracked on a POA&M, thus ensuring compliance with the FISMA, IRM policy, and the Office of … Security Audit Trails (ESAT) Project Management Office (hereafter referred to as the ESAT office) within the Information … down in the same document, the following narrative is added: Application audit control deficiencies are also …

Strategies and Protocols to Authenticate Network User Identities Are Effective; However, More Action Is Needed to Verify the Identity of Devices

Report Number
2020-20-036

… business units that internally manage non-802.1X protocol compatible devices to develop a comprehensive plan with … to authenticate users and devices, i.e., the ISE is added to the Active Directory domain and the ISE queries … sample6 of one day of activity from the ISE audit log after the IRS had begun to enforce ISE authentication at all …

Improved Procedures Are Needed to Prevent the Fraudulent Use of Third‑Party Authorization Forms to Obtain Taxpayer Information

Report Number
2018-40-062

… Inspector General for Tax Administration Audit $0 $0 The Commissioner, Wage and Investment Division, should … File (CAF). Also, the IRS did not protect 300 taxpayers after identifying that their Taxpayer Identification Numbers … of potentially unauthorized request forms processed and added to the CAF is overstated. We calculated our forecast …

The Annual Inventory Certification Process for Non–Information Technology Assets Needs Improvement

Report Number
2020-10-039

… for remote inventory certification that ensures uniform completion and maintenance of supporting documentation. … of all IRS non–information technology (IT) assets (hereafter referred to as non-IT assets) and maintains physical … the inventory system. An asset can be barcoded before it is added to the inventory system. According to the Desk Guide, …

Interim Results of the 2020 Filing Season: Effect of COVID-19 Shutdown on Tax Processing and Customer Service Operations and Assessment of Efforts to Implement Legislative Provisions

Report Number
2020-46-041

… waste, or abuse, please call us at 1-800-366-4484 TIGTACommunications@tigta.treas.gov | www.treasury.gov/tigta | … The IRS began issuing EIPs on April 10, 2020, just 14 days after the passage of the CARES Act. As a result of these … The IRS also issued new guidance on May 6, 2020, and added the alerts below as part of the EIP Frequently Asked …