Private Tax Collection Program

Self-Interested Group Attack Limits on Outsourcing Tax Collection

Jul 19, 2006 by Adam Hughes*

In advance of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee markup, opponents of current efforts to prohibit the IRS from outsourcing its collection of outstanding taxes have come out in force. The head of the Association of Credit and Collection Professionals sent a letter to Senate appropriators on July 14 asking them to oppose any amendment that would prohibit the IRS from using any of its fiscal year 2007 funds to hire private debt collectors.

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A Step In The Right Direction

Jun 15, 2006 by Adam Hughes*

The House inched closer toward fiscal sanity yesterday when it voted to ban the IRS’s costly practice of using private collection agencies to collect uncontested tax debts.

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Talk About Waste, Fraud, and Abuse...

Mar 31, 2006 by Adam Hughes*

Here's an item that, unfortunately, won't get mentioned at the next Republican-sponsored "waste, fraud, and abuse in government" hearing on Capitol Hill. IRS Commissioner Mark Everson testified before Congress this week that it will cost significantly more money to use private companies to collect outstanding taxes than it would to hire additional IRS agents.

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