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Private tax collection zapped in spending bill
In a victory for the Treasury Employees union, the House of Representatives voted to kill the pilot private debt collection program for tax debts. While opposition is cloaked in concerns about taxpayer...
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Good thing Congress banned the outsourcing of federal tax collections
Now that the IRS private collection program has been closed, all collection action is undertaken by IRS agents, who invariably perform at the highest level of professionalism. For example: IRS agent...
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Make sure your crimes are committed by unionized Treasury employees.
Congress this year ended the pilot program to outsource collection of delinquent taxes to private collections. Opponents of the program insisted that private collectors just couldn’t be trusted to deal...
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Only trust official Treasury employees to steal your mail
Earlier this year the pilot program to collect some federal income taxes using private collection agencies was killed. That’s because you can only trust federal employees to do this sort of work, as...
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Two Taxpayer Advocates in one!
Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson came out with her annual report yesterday. She says of the IRS, “This level of service is unacceptable.” Funny. Not long ago she led the charge to shut down the pilot...
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Good thing private collection agencies no longer menace taxpayer confidentiality
From the Taxprof: TIGTA: IRS Releases Confidential Information to Callers Without Proper Authentication in 16% of Cases, Subjecting Taxpayers to Risk of Identity Theft Peter Pappas has more....
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Let’s make a deal
Though doubts sometimes arise about this, IRS agents are human, too. That means they are subject to normal human vices. Peter Pappas passes on on WebCPA report of an agent accused of going bad in...
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We can’t use private contractors to do tax work because they might misuse the...
The AP reports that Farrah Jones has pleaded guilty to preparing a false return, using data she illicitly acquired while processing taxpayer information to claim refunds on behalf of others. That would...
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Because you can’t trust private agencies to collect taxes
The IRS shut down its pilot program to use private collection agencies to pursue some tax delinquents in 2009. We were told the IRS was more effective at collecting the taxes. Now the Treasury...
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