The Internal Revenue Service is an American Tax Collection Agency.

We get so much money they collect every year from American taxpayers.

We collect $3 trillion a year in a voluntary compliance system.

That's the IRS Commissioner himself.

Cheat trillion dollars is a lot of money that travels through the IRS's fingers.

And something I've learned over the years is that if that kind of money is going through

an organization, it's going to attract criminals and hackers to like a how and dog attracts

these.

So a lot has to be done to protect the IRS from attackers.

There are problems.

First of all, the budget is shrinking.

Again, here's the Commissioner from 2015.

The IRS is now at its lowest level of funding since 2008.

If you adjust for inflation, our budget is now comparable to where we were in 1998.

While our budget has been shrinking, however, the taxpayer base has grown by millions.

But after five years of budget cuts and a hiring freeze that has lasted for four years,

people need to understand that the IRS is going to have to do less with less.

It means that both enforcement and taxpayer service will suffer.

From 2010 to 2015, the budget had gone down by 20%.

You can already start to guess what kind of impact this may have on an organization.

Between 2010 and 2014, the IRS lost over 13,000 employees.

We expect to lose another 3,000 more or less through a trition by the end of this year.

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