Forbes has a great April Fool's Day joke for you today: Congress Considers a Tax on Email. While the headline is just an April Fool's Day joke, free email is not something to be taken for granted. In fact, while the Internet Tax Freedom Act (ITFA) protects email from being taxed, that law expires in September 2015. And lawmakers have even discussed the idea of taxing email and what that would look like.

The Army has shut down its decades-old website and email platform, as it works to set up a new model. The majority of soldiers currently using the "Army Knowledge Online" (AKO) website, are no longer able to access their accounts or send email. Their @us.army.mil accounts are being updated with new @mail.mil. Emails will be forwarded from the old address to the new address until June 30, 2015.

The IRS is very strict about email security, according to the agency's Commissioner John Koskinen. At a press luncheon this week, Koskinen disclosed that early in his career after emailing himself an official document that he wanted to take home to work on after hours, he got a visit from IT security. Since then he's had an official computer installed at home and never uses his personal devices or email account for official business.