The Data Exploration Lab examines all sources of data for opportunities to detect and prevent fraudulent behavior. The lab identifies patterns and trends to develop new approaches to detect emerging schemes. This will improve service and enforcement efforts by preventing refunds from being issued to fraudulent actors.

The Emerging Risks Lab applies new and advanced techniques to detect emerging risks across the Service. The lab mines data and develops advanced tools to understand and create visual representations of the taxpayer environment. This enables the Service to identify emerging compliance risks across larger taxpayer segments and understand relationships among non-compliant actors that are otherwise difficult to detect.

The Issue Identification Lab enhances the Service's compliance issue identification and provides analytically-based solutions to compliance issues. The lab analyzes tax data and taxpayer information to develop innovative and forward-thinking approaches to identify, quantify, evaluate, and/or mitigate compliance issues within the Service.

The Modeling and Optimization Lab produces predictive models and resource and workload optimizations to increase effectiveness of IRS service and compliance. These include enforcement models and optimizations to test and implement more effective detection, prevention, and treatment of tax compliance issues as well as resource optimization models covering IRS workforce and real estate.

Data Delivery and Support oversees the management and coordination of data products available on the Compliance Data Warehouse (CDW).

The Enforcement Revenue Data lab produces and delivers data through the Enforcement Revenue Information System (ERIS) on revenue collected from all IRS enforcement actions.

Infrastructure Systems and Services provides support for the servers and networks for the Compliance Data Warehouse, RAAS divisions, and the business units.

The Operations Imaging Lab oversees the RAAS scanning and IRS e-file parsing operations in addition to providing server and network support for the RAAS Statistics of Income and Data Management projects.

The Technical Lab collaborates with other RAAS IT support staff to provide support for the servers and networks needed for RAAS staff to collect, analyze, and disseminate information on federal taxation.

The Compliance Modeling Lab estimates the nature and extent of noncompliance, including the tax gap and the voluntary filing rate. Responsibilities also include the development of baseline compliance risk models, including Discriminate Function (DIF). The lab also conducts focused compliance studies supporting key IRS initiatives.

The National Research Program (NRP) gathers detailed data on the taxpaying population to inform IRS, Treasury, and Executive branch decision-making processes. NRP directly addresses specific congressional inquiries and provides actionable data regarding taxpayer compliance. NRP also generates data for IRS workload selection.

The Partnership and Innovation Lab orchestrates strategic partnerships with the academic community and key external stakeholders to generate greater understanding on topics pertaining to behavioral insights and IRS research priorities, develop new methodologies and validate insights. The Partnership and Innovation Lab facilitates knowledge sharing and dissemination across research and analytics functions both within and outside of RAAS.

The Policy and Program Impact Lab supports planning and evaluation of major legislative implementation programs and tax administration policy changes, including the Affordable Care Act and the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. The lab applies forensic economics and related analytical methods to estimate program impacts. The Policy and Program Impact Lab’s efforts focus on planning support and evaluation of major programs for key customers.

The Taxpayer Behavior Lab focuses on understanding and estimating the time and money burden incurred by taxpayers to meet their federal tax reporting responsibilities and researching cost-effective ways to help taxpayers overcome barriers to claiming the tax benefits to which they are entitled and to encourage tax compliance. The lab’s Taxpayer Burden Models are used to inform tax policy, regulatory guidance, and program improvement. Specific focus areas include taxpayer compliance burden and behavioral insight pilots.

Corporations, Partnerships and International produces comprehensive data on corporation income tax and partnership returns through a variety of studies. The branch also prepares detailed tables, articles, and publications providing statistics on income, deductions, credits, and other taxes as reported by corporations filing Forms 1120 (including 1120-L, 1120-PC, 1120-REIT, 1120-RIC ) and partnerships filing Form 1065. .International studies include those corporation returns that file relevant forms (such as Form 1118, Form 5471, and more).

Individual and Tax Exempt produces comprehensive statistics from data collected from income tax forms and associated schedules filed to report income and taxes for individuals, tax-exempt organizations, tax-exempt bonds, gifts, and estates.

Information Management and Dissemination provides Information Technology support for numerous SOI studies and RAAS initiatives, prepares publications for printing and dissemination, and manages the Statistical Information Services office which assists the public and other customers with data requests and questions about published statistics and the Tax Stats Web pages.

Statistical Services provides statistical services to various organizations across the IRS. These services include producing sample designs and weights for the major SOI studies and providing statistical support for numerous IRS quality measures, surveys, and pilot programs throughout the IRS. Additionally, the Servicewide Support section develops projections of tax return volumes for IRS workload planning and offers ad hoc forecasting services.

The Business Performance Analytics (BPA) Lab focuses on providing data driven analytical support to IRS customers by engaging in a collaborative manner with subject matter experts and leadership stakeholders. The BPA lab utilizes a variety of quantitative analysis, statistical modeling, and machine learning techniques to solve problems in support of more effective and efficient IRS operations.

The Project Management Office (PMO) manages coordination of RAAS portfolio meetings, including new requests for the research assets of RAAS. The PMO advises and supports the Data and Analytics Strategic Integration Board (DASIB), Data and Analytics Advisory Group (DAAG), and shares research information across the IRS Research Community through forums such as senior leadership meetings, communities of practice, and maintenance of the IRS Data & Analytics Project Repository.

SPDER designs, delivers, and manages a set of tax administration and knowledge tools to enable IRS employees to meet their responsibilities for enforcement, compliance, and customer service. These tools include the Internal Revenue Manual, commercial electronic research services, knowledge management, and the IRS historical library.

The Strategic Innovation and Implementation lab leads analytical and research projects in collaboration with stakeholders from IRS Business Divisions to tackle very large strategic problems by asking the right questions, looking at the problem through different perspectives, and sizing and scoping opportunities to develop and deliver innovative solutions. This lab also spreads the data‐driven culture by providing opportunities for detailees from around the IRS to lead large multi‐functional initiatives and employ advanced data usability and analytics.