The agency said underfunding forced it to redirect employees responsible for inventories to other jobs.
The IRS watchdog said that agency personnel have not been doing required annual inventories of the microfilm cartridges and urged the IRS to better restrict access to the tax records.
TIGTA noted that this may be because the vendor responsible for creating the cartridges went out of business abruptly in 2018. The IRS has come under fire before by Republicans for improper handling of taxpayer information, such as its destruction of 30 million paper tax returns in March of 2021 during the height of the pandemic that subsequently caused an outcry from the tax community.
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