Garza has been with the IRS since 1984, helping implement a multi-billion-dollar IT modernization program.

Underscoring the need to modernize IRS's IT is also a critical need to hire tech and cybersecurity specialists.

With several massive data breaches last year, the IRS says the taxpayers and preparers should be extra vigilant as criminals could use information obtained in those breaches to fuel a tax scam.

The IRS is looking to deploy new mobile solutions to assist with tax collections, and it’s reaching out to industry for its market research.

The report details how the IRS’s Return Integrity and Compliance Services organization didn’t record and monitor 89 external data breaches reported to it.

A Treasury Department internal watchdog said that the IRS was not complying with FITARA in delegating responsibilities that are supposed to go to the CIO.