IRS chief: Blame rotten customer service and data hacks on Obamacare

Both cybersecurity and customer service at the Internal Revenue Service have suffered because of Obamacare, the agency’s head said in remarks to Congress on Thursday.

 

“Congress, as I noted in my testimony, has underfunded … the Affordable Care Act,” IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told a panel of the House Appropriations Committee. “That does not remove the statutory mandate we have that we have to implement the act.”

 

Koskinen delivered his remarks in response to a question from Chairman Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Ky., who pointed out that Congress had “increased funding specifically for taxpayer services” in 2014 and 2016.

 

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