WSJ editorial based on my reporting: t.co/DZHjEswTCb

This is the story they’re going off of: www.nextgov.com/modernizatio...

IRS will stick with legacy processing system for the upcoming tax season

The IRS is waiting to switch away from the old Individual Master File “out of an abundance of caution,” despite hopes to potentially convert to the new one this year, IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel tol...

I know that I am probably one of the few remaining geekasaurs who can maintain a Cobol flat Masterfile system but why is that still being used as the primary IRS system sixty odd years later? WTAF?