The department unveiled a yearlong transition plan to what it's calling the T-Cloud.

GAO made 20 recommendations after its 2018 audit of IRS financial statements, bringing the total number of unaddressed recommendations across audits to 127.

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.