In years past, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has never called taxpayers to collect back taxes. However, beginning this month, the IRS will use four private collection firms to deal with severely delinquent cases. Although this new strategy is said to be in place to help alleviate stress and prevent harassment for taxpayers they have experienced in the past, I believe this change may be an attempt to improve the IRS’s budget. And, this policy change comes at further costs to the tax payers. Collection companies employ aggressive collection tactics that can at times be borderline abusive and this policy would further degrade taxpayers’ perceptions of the IRS. The IRS has attempted this strategy of using private collectors previously and each time they have needed to stop the project. Not only were taxpayers being abused, but the project ended up costing money due to high administrative costs and commissions to debt collectors. In 2006, the Continue reading about What You Need to Know About New IRS Debt Collectors
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