The IRS is now collecting back taxes by private debt collectors

[MrPickins]

A better analogy would be selling an item yourself and keeping all the profits, vs selling an item through an escrow service that charged a 98.75% service fee.

What is congress thinking?

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Citrix

Originally posted by: mugs

Originally posted by: Citrix

ok lets put it this way. how would you feel if the city you lived in cut back on its patrol officers and hired security guards to enforce the law.

If they are trained just as well and held to the same standards, I don't see the difference.

:disgust: so you have no problems with some HS drop out security guard performing law enforcement duties?

If they are trained just as well and held to the same standards is what I said. Most LEOs have college degrees, so yeah I think I would have a problem if they were replaced by high school drop-outs.

Your analogy failed, because you're assuming that private entities are less qualified to do a job than a government entity. Usually that is not the case. Don't we have private entities running prisons? Or at very least providing most of the services that prisons use (like food). I think a debt collection agency is probably qualified in the area of collecting debts.

The question is, what's the gov'ts motivation? A far larger percentage of tax errors found is in people paying more than $25,000. If using debt collectors is such a great idea, why not use them for ALL amounts owed.

Additionally, why cut back on audits for wealthy estate tax payers?

The administration plans to cut the jobs of 157 of the agency?s 345 estate tax lawyers, plus 17 support personnel, in less than 70 days.

Estate tax lawyers are the most productive tax law enforcement personnel at the I.R.S., according to Mr. Brown. For each hour they work, they find an average of $2,200 of taxes that people owe the government.

Over the last five years, officials at both the I.R.S. and the Treasury have told Congress that cheating among the highest-income Americans is a major and growing problem.

 

[Miramonti]

Typical @sshole Bush bullsh!t.

Aggressively go after the poorer with the smaller debts and leave the rich people alone with their mega debts. :roll:

 

[OutHouse]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
dude if you think thats wrong

come live over here where we have the marvellous inheritence tax

thats right, when you die and leave possessions such as houses etc in your will to other member of your family, the government steps in and takes a magnificent slice! its brilliant, they tax you on everything you earn (which if you earn more than £33,000 is a 40% tax .... earn £100k? pay the government £40K before u even get your money!) then you pay National Insurance on top of that.

then they take 17.5% on everything you buy, up to 80% of the price of petrol is tax, then theres car tax and despite car tax theres still roads you have to pay to drive on. despite paying 40% tax + NI the NHS still cant look after you and give you the medical attention u need.

then theres more tax on alcohol

i think my mother siad that when she and my dad pass away, and leave the house to me n my brother..... we'll end up having to pay the government about 40% the value of our parents possessions. the house alone is worth over £400,000.

its ****** criminal, and i hate this country.

Do what we did and have your version of the Boston Tea Party.

 

[DrPizza]

I want to laugh when I suggest this jokingly, but I'm actually too afraid of what the truth could possibly be...

Haliburton doesn't have a collection agency as a subsidiary, do they?

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
I want to laugh when I suggest this jokingly, but I'm actually too afraid of what the truth could possibly be...

Haliburton doesn't have a collection agency as a subsidiary, do they?

ROFL

At any rate, it is nice to see a local firm getting some of the business (CBE Group).