The vast majority of that money will go to hire more staff to pursue multi-millionaire tax dodgers, not to modernise the tech, so the previous comment was prett

The vast majority of that money will go to hire more staff to pursue multi-millionaire tax dodgers, not to modernise the tech, so the previous comment was pretty misleading. The tech modernisation is supposed to cost about $2.5 billion over a decade or so. Just for rough numbers that's about what 1,000 developers would cost. That sounds like a lot but the IRS claims they need to rewrite 600 different applications, most of which are at least 20 years old. And the Individual Master File (IMF) is 60 years old. No idea what the systems are and I doubt each one of those 600 will take the full 5+ years. But you could see how they could pretty quickly get to needing hundreds and hundreds of developers for years at a stretch. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p3744.pdf https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p3744.pdf Looking over their tech modernisation plan ("Objective 4") in Publication 3744 they have a lot of work so the number is high but not like insanely impossibly high.