Dog is hitting the Tax Authority for the budget update program and 30 years delayed

A representative of the Ministry of Governmental efficiency (DOGE) said on Thursday that the program of updating the Tax Authority was largely on the budget and behind the schedule.

The CEO and Special Adviser to the US Treasury, Sam Korkas, told hosts Laura Ingharam at “The Ingraham Angle” that was brought by by President Donald Trump The CEO of Tesla Elusk’s Doge “take a look at the Tax Authority updating program in particular, as well as the budget for operations and maintenance.”

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“The Tax Authority has some ancient infrastructure,” he explained about the update program. “It is really very similar to what the banks you use were. They are ancient decisive devices that operate Cobol and assembly. The challenge was how we implement this into a modern system? Each bank has already done this, but we still use a lot of these same systems, usually in the industry, it may take a few years, and perhaps a few hundred dollars now, and we are now 35 years in this program.”

Corcas claimed that the “huge” tax authority updating program was 30 years after the schedule and “indeed $ 15 billion on the budget.” He said he was supposed to be delivered in 1996.

However, he was optimistic about the update Tax AuthorityAnd, saying that the agency has “a lot of software talents”, but it was “not in a position to enable to make these decisions.”

According to Corcas, the Tax Authority “is of the same amount of data” as a medium -sized bank, but it uses more people and resources to do so.

Corcas said that a medium -sized bank “will have somewhere between one and 200 people, and it will have a budget for operations and maintenance in a range of $ 20 million a year.” At the same time, he said that the Tax Authority employs 8,000 people in IT and “our budget and maintenance budget is $ 3.5 billion per year.”

“I don’t really know the reason yet, but I will tell you that 80 % of this budget goes to contractors and licenses,” he added.

Treasury Secretary, Scott Payette, who appeared with Corcas on “Ingharaham Zawiya”, called on the Tax and Contractors Advisers to “a problem”, and exchanged for the Boa leaders who “restricting themselves around our government.”

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“The main focus was” how we manage this, “said Korkas, noting that the Tax Authority” exceeded any reasonable cost because you expect a private company “for this update program.

Nearly $ 1.5 billion has been stripped of Update the Tax Authority The budget so far, Ingraham said.

In general, DOGE works to significantly boost spending and increase efficiency throughout the federal government, with the aim of limiting spending of $ 2 trillion.

The total estimated savings of 115 billion dollars on its website on the Internet as of Friday. This total, Doug claimed the equivalent of $ 714.29 for every taxpayer.

Last month, Dog sought advice from the public about waste, fraud and abuse in many federal agencies by creating DOGE’s social media accounts.

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Trump used an executive order on the day when the 47th president, who was officially established. the An initiative that leads musk It is expected to end the cost reduction efforts by early July 2026.

Eric Rafel contributed to this report.