IRS System Misses Deadline

The first phase, the transfer of tax data on 6 million 1040-EZ filers, was originally scheduled to move to the database from a 40-year-old, magnetic tape-based system in December 2001. That date was pushed back several times to this August, but the contractors, led by Computer Systems Corp., and which include BearingPoint, IBM, Northrop Grumman Information Technology, SAIC and Unisys, recently informed Everson of additional delays in implementing CADE.

With the new delays, the IRS says, agency programmers won't have enough time this fall to make changes for the 2004 tax-filing season. So, the IRS will implement the first phase of CADE next year. Everson has asked the federally funded Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University to review the project's progress and determine within the next 90 days whether changes are needed.

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