If you want to understand IRS dysfunction, let me explain it this way: IRS computer programs have been subjected to major changes every year for over 60 years.

For a few years, I toiled as a computer programmer at the IRS. The agency’s technology is antiquated, non-standard, and poorly designed. After 60 years, it possesses little to no cohesive support documentation.

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