By Faye Fiore, LA Times


Make no mistake about it, the Internal Revenue Service wants Americans to pay their delinquent tax bills. The trouble is, it doesn’t seem to have the staff to collect from those taxpayers who have been remiss.


So the agency no one likes to hear from is turning to the industry no one likes to hear from: private debt-collection firms.


The government this month began accepting bids from debt-collection agencies that it hoped to begin using as early as next summer to go after billions of dollars in unpaid taxes.


For this complete story, please visit IRS Debt Collection Program Gets Back on Track.


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