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GAO-24-107356 1 (2024-06-25)

handle is hein.gao/gaoqkj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 25, 2024 The Honorable Danny Werfel Commissioner Internal Revenue Service 1111 Constitution Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20224 Priority Open Recommendations: Internal Revenue Service Dear Mr. Werfel: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your continued personal attention to areas where open or partially implemented recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2023, we reported that, on a government-wide basis, 75 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 IRS's recommendation implementation rate was 83 percent. As of June 2024, IRS had 284 recommendations that were either open or partially implemented. Fully implementing these recommendations could significantly improve IRS's operations and lead to potential financial benefits. In August 2022, Congress passed and the President signed the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which included tens of billions of dollars to bolster taxpayer services and enforcement of the tax code, among other purposes.3 IRS delivered its Inflation Reduction Act Strategic Operating Plan in April 2023 and released an annual update to the plan in May 2024. In refining and carrying out its plan, IRS should work toward implementing our open recommendations, particularly those we highlight in this letter as being of the highest priority. 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies because they may significantly improve government operations, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2023, GAO-24-900483 (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2023). 3Pub. L. No. 117-169, tit. 1, subtit. A, pt. 3, § 10301, 136 Stat. 1818, 1831-1833 (2022). In June 2023, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 rescinded about $1.4 billion of amounts appropriated for IRS by IRA. See Pub. L. No. 118-5, div, B, tit. II, § 251, 137 Stat. 10, 30-31 (2023). In March 2024, the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2024 rescinded another $20.2 billion of amounts appropriated for IRS by IRA. See Pub. L. No. 118-47, div, B, tit. VI, § 640, div, D, tit. V, § 530, H. R. 2882, at 113, 249 (2024). GAO-24-107356 IRS Priority Recommendations Page 1

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