Poor planning led to the termination of an Internal Revenue Service project to provide online access to tax records, which the agency had spent $10 million to develop, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration [1] reported on Tuesday.

The IRS terminated My IRS Account in December 2008, a project that would have provided taxpayers online access to their tax account information and tools to find assistance for tax preparation. The agency also planned to use MIRSA as a prototype for future delivery of Web-based projects. The IRS terminated the project near its scheduled December 2008 deployment date after working on it for 32 months and spending $10 million.