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Report File
Date Issued
Submitting OIG
Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration
Agencies Reviewed/Investigated
Internal Revenue Service
Report Number
2025-IE-R005
Report Type
Inspection / Evaluation
Agency Wide
Yes
Number of Recommendations
12
Questioned Costs
$0
Funds for Better Use
$0
Report updated under NDAA 5274
No

Open Recommendations

This report has 10 open recommendations.
Recommendation Number Significant Recommendation Recommended Questioned Costs Recommended Funds for Better Use Additional Details
1 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should develop standard operating procedures for sensitive document safeguarding and destruction to ensure uniformity and consistency across all IRS facilities.

3 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should immediately evaluate the 110 facilities not covered under the national or local contracts to ensure that the IRS has sensitive document safeguarding and destruction procedures in place that comply with NIST guidelines.

4 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should ensure that all bins that do not meet requirements are replaced at the Kansas City, Missouri, IRS facility.

5 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should develop processes and procedures to periodically inspect bins to identify damaged and altered bins and work with local subcontractors to replace the bins at all IRS facilities.

6 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should ensure that all bins at every IRS facility are labeled properly to instruct employees to only discard sensitive documents in locked bins solely used for destruction purposes.

8 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should ensure that Document 13420, The Sensitive Document Destruction Bin, information flyer is displayed throughout all IRS locations to instruct employees on the importance of properly disposing sensitive documents.

9 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should perform annual inspections of all facilities used by subcontractors for sensitive document destruction to ensure compliance with NIST guidelines (e.g., shred, burn, mulch, pulp, or pulverize sensitive documents beyond recognition and reconstruction).

10 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should complete an up-to-date cost-benefit analysis to ensure that there is optimal bin size and number of bins based on the number of employees at all 387 IRS facilities covered under the national contract.

11 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should designate FMSS personnel on-site at each of the IRS facilities whose responsibilities are to verify what is serviced matches to the subcontractor CODs and to ensure that only full bins are retrieved for destruction.

12 No $0 $0

The Chief, Facilities Management and Security Services, should develop processes and procedures to ensure that only full bins are serviced and scanned and compare invoices to bin scan reports to only pay for those bins scanned.

Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration

United States