Highway bill takes center stage for debt collection fight

Federal Times: The IRS should use federal employees, not private debt collectors, to go after inactive outstanding tax liabilities, according to the head of the National Treasury Employees Union.

“Outsourcing the tax collection work of the IRS is a waste of taxpayer dollars,” said NTEU president Tony Reardon during a conference call with reporters..“That’s why the experiment was tried and rejected twice in the past 20 years.”

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