IRS Loses $37 Million Using Contract Debt Collectors, Not Employees

Washington Post:

The Internal Revenue Service expects to lose more than $37 million by using private debt collectors to pursue tax scofflaws through a program that has outraged consumers and led to charges on Capitol Hill that the agency is wasting money for work that IRS agents could do more effectively.

Since 2006, the agency has used three companies to go after a $1 billion slice of the nation's unpaid taxes. Despite aggressive collection tactics, the companies have rounded up only $49 million, little more than half of what it has cost the IRS to implement the program. The debt collectors have pocketed commissions of up to 24 percent.

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Comments

[MetalCanuck]

I am glad they are losing money.,

[thegreatgiginthesky]

They are loosing our money. The IRS by itself does not have any money.

[MetalCanuck]

Sorry I forgot...well the IRS can disappear for all I care.

[zigzag1]

Hopefully Reagan just flipped over in his box

[forpeace]

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In another word, the Tax Payers Lose $37 Million when IRS Using Contract Debt Collectors, Not Employees.

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[Quaoar]

Contract Debt Collectors? Does the Mafia run the IRS now?

[WIpatriot]

Hwy! Don't give them ideas!!

[themodernleader]

Yet another incompetent performance furnishing rationale to institute impeachment proceedings against this ignoble President.

[drkazmd65]

But,... but,... but,... but,... but,... but,... but,... but,... I thought that privatization of Government functions was supposed to increase efficiency and innovation?

Or not,...

[Podewumun]

The Bush administration "believes", like Ronald Reagan, that less government is good government. Which, when you're as inept at governance as they are, is absolutely true.
The biggest problem with Bush's grandiose "privatization" scheme? These services have been contracted out to cronies who are just as greedy and incompetent as he is.

[WIpatriot]

Yeah, but this administration doesn't see that as a problem, see?

[WIpatriot]

Had me goin', doc, thought you were going to say 'Clinton.'

[thegreatgiginthesky]

Look for an increase in the number of audits this year. They will audit most of the middle class citizens and try to squeeze what little they have.

[DC8P4DCEFE]

LOL, what a bunch of inept clowns.

Is there ANYTHING you Americans can do without fucking things up royal???

[HmblDog]

baseball?

[Podewumun]

Not even that. Steroids?

[WIpatriot]

Steal you blind?

Shoot your ass up?

Bomb the piss out of you?

Subvert your government?

Lie with a straight face?

Plenty.