Just in time for April 17, ZDnet reminds us that the US Internal Revenue Service is still using some really old computer technology to process Federal tax returns. One key piece of the IRS infrastructure, Master File, has been in use since 1962. A replacement has been deployed, but the system is late, and it cannot deal with all of the returns that it’s supposed to handle.
IRS still using mainframes to process tax returns
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