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The IRS modernization project has already cost taxpayers more than four billion dollars.
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General Accounting Office, report
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The IRS computer system being replaced is thirty years old.
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General Accounting Office, report
A new report released today by the General Accounting Office says the Internal Revenue Service had botched a multi-billion dollar modernization project. The project, to replace the agency's thirty-year-old computer system, has already cost taxpayers more than four billion dollars. The GAO says the new system is way over budget, far from being finished, and riddled with problems. NPR's John Nielsen reports.
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