The results of a Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) audit released Tuesday found that “[w]hile the IRS is complying with GSA requirements to recycle or donate used information technology (IT) equipment, TIGTA found several areas for improvement.” The IRS got rid of more than 100,000 computers between 2009 and 2012 by recycling or donating to schools. However, the agency does not “effectively track which equipment is recycled or donated,” which made it difficult for TIGTA to measure compliance to General Services Administration (GSA) requirements.
The press release from TIGTA reads as follows:
The report is dated April 25, 2014, but was released publicly Tuesday.
The IRS has been under scrutiny lately for missing emails of former Exempt Organizations Unit director Lois Lerner, whose laptop hard drive crashed in 2011. The IRS released a statement on Tuesday saying that through other methods of recovery, “the IRS has or will produce 24,000 Lerner emails from this 2009-2011 time period, largely from the files of the other 82 individuals. The IRS’s production to Congress of the 67,000 Lerner emails is nearly complete.”
