IRS Servers Down During Crucial Week

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 12, 2010 @11:30AM from the get-in-line-citizen dept.

crimeandpunishment writes "A planned server outage turned into an unplanned glitch for the Internal Revenue Service, and it comes at a very bad time. The IRS planned the server outage for the holiday weekend ... but today they couldn't get the system back into operation. This week is the deadline for filing 2009 tax returns for taxpayers who got extensions. So far it's not having a huge impact since the shutdown only involves the updated version of the e-filing system, and most programs used by large tax companies like H&R Block will default to the older version. There's no estimate on when the system will be back up."

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Can't we just leave the IRS down permanently? by Just_Say_Duhhh · 2010-10-12 11:47 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Now might be a good time for the House of Representatives to look at HR.25, and if they pass it, then getting the IRS back on its feet would suddenly become a VERY low priority.

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Re:'Unplanned glitch' by Anonymous Coward · 2010-10-12 12:46 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Oddly enough, the first thing that came across my mind was to wonder if this was planned. How would the corruption/destruction of the tax database affect America's ability to address its debt? God knows, the rest of the world is anticipating an extreme state of economic administration, can't help but think this could be used as the catalyst.