(January 10, 2018 at 1:21 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Such an overwhelming success!
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/busin...c=rss&_r=0
Quote:I.R.S. Paid $20 Million to Collect $6.7 Million in Tax Debts
Quote:When Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin was asked at his confirmation hearing what he thought about using private companies to collect money owed to the government, he replied that it “seems like a very obvious thing to do.”
It may have been obvious, but it certainly was not economical.
Private debt collectors cost the Internal Revenue Service $20 million in the past fiscal year, but brought in only $6.7 million in back taxes, the agency’s taxpayer advocate reported Wednesday. That was less than 1 percent of the amount assigned for collection.
What’s more, private contractors in some cases were paid 25 percent commissions on collections that the I.R.S. made without their help, according to the annual report by Nina E. Olson, who heads the Taxpayer Advocate Service, an independent office within the I.R.S.
Programs such as that are favorite brother-in-law scams. You can bet that the people running most of those companies are connected to the Congress Critters and bureaucrats.
