Do we know which consulting firm was contracted to build the IRS' Get My Payment tool?

Deciding if I should trust it with my SSN and personal info.... or if the gov't built it themselves.

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I am not sure which company built it, but pretty much any government website out there where you input sensitive info was likely built out by contractors, with the underlying architecture relying on services provided by private companies as well. Even literally the most sensitive, top-secret stuff is accessible to contractors (see Snowden).

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Would you be willing to file your taxes electronically? I’m not really sure what this question is.

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Watch out for that Snowden dude...

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I believe it’s the same company that created Mercury for EY

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Not worried about the gov't getting it. That's a given.

Worried about it being a hot piece of garbage and everything getting leaked.

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