Sorry for getting that song stuck in your head, by the way.
Imagine, if you would, the following exchange:
IRS Agent: What you did here is suspicious.
Audited individual: I haven’t broken any laws!
IRS Agent: Really? What are the relevant laws?
Audited individual: …I don’t know.
I want you to imagine what the IRS agent’s most likely response would be to that. You can, right? It’s pretty easy. We all know just how much give there is when it comes to dealing with the tax man.
Because the IRS apparently did use Sonasoft, once:
The IRS reportedly used a private company to back up emails, a new report claims. The company is called Sonasoft, which boasts, “Email Archiving Done Right.”
“The IRS had a contract with email backup service vendor Sonasoft starting in 2005, according to FedSpending.org, which lists the contract as being for ‘automatic data processing services.’ Sonasoft’s motto is ’email archiving done right,’ and the company lists the IRS as a customer,” Reason magazine reports.
Continue reading Question of the day: Does the IRS use/*still* use Sonasoft to back up its archives?
That’s the central problem that the IRS has, here:
A defiant IRS Commissioner on Friday refused to apologize for the loss of ex-IRS official Lois Lerner’s emails, and said the agency produced what they could, attributing their disappearance to dated technology.
“I don’t think an apology is owed,” chief John Koskinen told Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp after the Republican lawmaker asked for one at the first hearing since news came of crashed computers of some IRS officials.
