The AP reports The IRS will use private debt collectors to get back taxes. Isn’t that the job of the federal governement? Anyway we should keep an eye on this so the recovery tactics do not get out of hand.
Internal Revenue Service prepares to implement a new program that sends private debt collection agencies after delinquent taxpayers, critics — including several lawmakers and the employee union at the Treasury Department — are gearing up to protest it.Opponents say that the IRS will pay private debt collectors more to do what government-paid employees could do and that the agency is not doing enough to let the public know about the new program, set to launch in early September.
Associated Press Business News: IRS Moves Ahead on Debt-Collection Plan – MSN Money
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