During a Wednesday nomination hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, President Biden’s pick to head the IRS, Danny Werfel, fielded questions about how he would spend the $80 billion infusion of cash into the agency promised over the next decade.
Technology, Werfel said, will be paramount, fielding questions from lawmakers about legacy systems, cybersecurity and customer service at the IRS and telling them, “We want to move systems into the 21st century.”
The Inflation Reduction Act, passed by Democrats last year, included around $4.8 billion for business systems modernization and $25.3 billion for operations support at the agency.
